Divine Act Quotes

It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods, than in giving health to men.

What God hath wrought?

The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential.

I will not say sorry and be pardoned for doing a godly act.

Science and religion are very much alike. Both are imaginative and creative aspects of the human mind. The appearance of a conflict is a result of ignorance. We come to exist through a divine act. That divine guidance is a theme throughout our life; at our death the brain goes, but that divine guidance and love continues. Each of us is a unique, conscious being, a divine creation. It is the religious view. It is the only view consistent with all the evidence.

This is the Lord's doing. And it is marvelous in our eyes.

Jesus died to save men - a small thing for an immortal to do - and didn't save many, anyway. But if he had been damned for the race, that would have been act of a size proper to a god, and would have saved the whole race.

Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

Ministry to an individual is as mighty an act of God as is ministry to the masses.

Your hair is an act of God.