#divine

Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him. ↗

— David Brainerd

#being #desire #divine #enjoy #every

Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith. ↗

— Austin Farrer

#acts #christ #christian #christian faith #divine

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#disease #divine #dust #else #entirely

All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors. ↗

— John Calvin

#blessings #committed #condition #deposits #dispensed

Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords? ↗

— John Clayton

#christ #church #dead #divine #faith

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear. ↗

— Felix Adler

#god #quality #life

Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence. ↗

— Ned Rorem

#artist #blaze #day #divine #each

Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole. ↗

— Alfred Rosenberg

#blood #defending #divine #divine nature #faith

Too fair to worship, too divine to love. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#fair #love #to love #too #worship

Blood fills my mouth. Fire sears my veins. I choke back a howl. The silver knife slips--the choice is mine. I am death or life. I am salvation or destruction. Angel or demon. I am grace. I plunge in the knife. This is my sacrifice-- I am the monster. ↗

— Bree Despain

#dark-divine #sacrifice #death