Divine Action Quotes

God is a verb, not a noun.

God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our free will than natural events like earthquakes. We choose how to respond to them.

God complaines not, but doth what is fitting.

Just in proportion as a man becomes good, divine, Christ-like, he passes out of the region of theorizing, of system-building, and hireling service, into the region of beneficent activities. It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.

God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

It can even come about that a created will cancels out, not perhaps the exertion, but the result of divine action; for in this sense, God himself has told us that God wishes things which do not happen because man does not wish them! Thus the rights of men are immense, and his greatest misfortune is to be unaware of them.

When we say that prayer puts God to work, it is simply to say that man has it in his power by prayer to move God to work in His own way among men, in which way He would not work if prayer was not made.

God does not become more divine when we push him away from us in a sheer, impenetrable voluntarism; rather, the truly divine God is the God who has revealed himself as logos and, as logos, has acted and continues to act lovingly on our behalf.

Every divine action begins from the Father, proceeds through the Son, and is completed in the Holy Spirit.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.

Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.

First, an angel is spiritually present at whatever place in physical space happens to be occupied by the body on which it acts. It can be present at that place without leaving Heaven which is its spiritual residence.

God only acts and is, in existing beings or men.

Dreams are tawdry when compared with the leading of God, and not worthy of the aura of wonder we usually surround them with. God only doeth wonders. He does nothing else. His hand can work nothing less.

God is bound to act, to pour himself out (into thee) as soon as ever he shall find thee ready.

In all thy actions think God sees thee; and in all His actions labor to see Him; that will make thee fear Him; this will move thee to love Him; the fear of God is the beginning of knowledge, and the knowledge of God is the perfection of love.

The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes its extension, behold! It is upon this table: This book, surpassing all others. I never omit to read it, and every day with some pleasure.

You must go on to remind yourself of God - who God is, and what God is, and what God has done, and what God has pledged Himself to do.

the work of salvation, in its full sense, is (1) about whole human beings, not merely souls; (2) about the present, not simply the future; and (3) about what God does through us, not merely what God does in and for us.

Prayer is not what is done by us, but rather what is done by the Holy Spirit in us.

Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.

I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form.