Divine Help Quotes

• God sends such purgations to you, directors of consciences, that you may acquire the science of the saints and the art of directing souls. You will suffer also in another way. Love will be your executioner. Let it do its work; it knows how. In this martyrdom we have need of extraordinary grace and strength; but God will bestow it. Without this divine help it would be impossible to bear up.

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  Paul of the Cross

  Art   Soul   Grace  

  2461

• We can open our hearts to God, but only with Divine help.

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  Thomas Aquinas

  Heart   Divine Help   Helping  

  "Questiones disputatae: De veritate (Disputed Questions: On Truth)". Book by Thomas Aquinas (Question 24, Article 15, Ad. 2), 1256-1259.

  1908

• Scapegoating worked in practice while it still had religious powers behind it. You loaded the sins of the city on to the goat’s back and drove it out, and the city was cleansed. It worked because everyone knew how to read the ritual, including the gods. Then the gods died, and all of a sudden you had to cleanse the city without divine help. Real actions were demanded instead of symbolism The censor was born, in the Roman sense. Watchfulness became the watchword: the watchfulness of all over all. Purgation was replaced by the purge.

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  J. M. Coetzee

  Religious   Real   Practice  

  J. M. Coetzee (1999). “Disgrâce”, Random House (UK)

  4104

• I had no knowledge of divine help, and all the world lost faith in gradual progress.

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  Joy Davidman

  Progress   Divine Help   World  

  969

• If you think humanity can get itself out of all this mess without divine help, then you're not being hopeful - you're hallucinating.

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  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking   Hopeful   Humanity  

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

  3998

• I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.

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  Teresa of Avila

  Saint   Divine Help   Helping  

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1966). “The Letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus”

  4930

• When a thought oppresses you, do not be downhearted, but put up with it in courage, saying, 'They swarmed around me closer and closer, but I drove them back in the name of the Lord' (Ps. 118:11). Divine help will arrive at your side immediately, and you will drive them away from you, and courage will compass you round about, and the glory of God will walk with you; and 'you will be filled to your soul's desire' (Isa. 58:11).

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  Pachomius the Great

  Christian   Your Side   Names  

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• I am convinced that there is no simple formula or technique that would immediately allow you to master the ability to be guided by the voice of the Spirit. Our Father expects you to learn how to obtain that divine help by exercising faith in Him and His Holy Son, Jesus Christ. Were you to receive inspired guidance just for the asking, you would become weak and ever more dependent on them. They know that essential personal growth will come as you struggle to learn how to be led by the Spirit.

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  Richard G. Scott

  Jesus   Father   Struggle  

  4821

• Our Father expects you to learn how to obtain that divine help by exercising faith in Him and His Holy Son, Jesus Christ.

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  Richard G. Scott

  Jesus   Father   Son  

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