Divine Initiative Quotes

They who seek Christ are already being sought of him.

The lifeblood of Christianity is not our persistence in moving toward God but God's persistence in moving toward us.

It is imperative to bear in mind that human creativity is not a claim or a right on the part of man, but God's claim on and call to man. God awaits man's creative act, which is the response to the creative act of God.

The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him.

God alone can make a man a believer. Our part is to accept or reject his initiative.

We do not make friends with God; God makes friends with us, bringing us to know him by making his love known to us... The word know, when used of God in this way, is a sovereign-grace word, pointing to God's initiative in loving, choosing, redeeming, calling and preserving.

God is not obligated to anoint what He does not initiate.

With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity.

It is important always to know that the first word, the true initiative, the true activity comes from God and only by inserting ourselves into the divine initiative, only begging for this divine initiative, shall we too be able to become - with him and in him - evangelizers.