Divine Influence Quotes

There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ.

Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change us.

Power is the goal of religion in general.

Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.

Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church.

Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?

If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.

The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.

Do you believe in that Infinite, good Providence working in and through you? If you believe that this Omnipresent One is present in every atom, is through and through, Ota-Prota, as the Sanskrit word goes, penetrating your body, mind and soul, how can you lose heart?

There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly; the former are called celestial angels, and the latter spiritual angels.

The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.

God seeks to influence humanity. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. It is the story of light coming into the darkness, of a Savior to show us the way, of light overcoming the darkness, of God's work to save the world.

We do not do good works to get into heaven; we do good works because heaven has gotten to us.

Religion's crucial role in the lives of many people... is rejected out of hand by the political community, especially the press.

Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer can move God

What we think of Christ influences our thinking and controls our actions.

Whoever resorts regularly to the lessons of Holy Scripture as an apt pupil will take the Savior into her group, and the children will perceive that He is present and that He assists in their work; thus, He will take possession of their souls.

For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out of glens and gardens of the Muses, and they bring them as bees do honey, flying like the bees? And what they say is true, for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him. So long as he has this in his possession, no man is able to make poetry or to chant in prophecy.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

The true guide of our conduct is no outward authority, but the voice of God, who comes down to dwell in our souls, who knows all our thoughts, to whom are owing all the truth we know, and all the good we do; for vice is voluntary, and virtue comes from the grace of the heavenly spirit within.

If you're a preacher's kid, you see the church differently.

My hand is entirely the implement of a distant sphere. It is not my head that functions but something else, something higher, something somewhere remote. I must have great friends there, dark as well as bright. They are all very kind to me.

My dear sisters, whatever your calling, whatever your circumstances, we need your impressions, your insights, and your inspiration. We need you to speak up and speak out in ward and stake councils.