Divine Will Quotes

“I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a necessary being exist totally polluted with the possible? What difference is there, then, between God and primogenial chaos? Isn't affirming God's absolute omnipotence and His absolute freedom with regard to His own choices tantamount to demonstrating that God does not exist?”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan practices. Acceptance of atheism at once pulls down caste and religious barriers between man and man. There is no longer a Hindu, a Muslim or a Christian. All are human beings. Further, the atheistic outlook puts man on his legs. There is neither divine will nor fate to control his actions. The release of free will awakens Harijans [lowest caste] and the depressed classes from the stupor of inferiority into which they were pressed all these ages when they were made to believe that they were fated to be untouchables. So I find the atheistic outlook helpful for my work [helping people]. After all it is man that created god to make society moral and to silence restless inquisitiveness about the how and why of natural phenomena. Of course god was useful though a falsehood. But like all falsehoods, belief in god also gave rise to many evils in course of time and today it is not only useless but harmful to human progress. So I take to the propagation of atheism as an aid to my work. The results justify my choice.”
― Gora, An Atheist with Gandhi

“You may have found your tribe or you may still be searching, but either way Divine Will is going to tap you on the shoulder. And when you turn around to see what’s going on, it will be abundantly clear to you which direction your life should take. If you appreciate your talent and above all else have a longing to live unshackled, if you’re bold and have the gallantry of true Wrong Planet people ….. even though from time to time you may tend to howl at the moon ….. you’ll take it.”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“He listened to her with a cool indifference and said: 'Why do you worry over the matter? God’s will is supreme. All things happen as He wills and at the time determined by Him.'

'How can you say so? Do you mean to say then that human effort has no value?' she retorted.

'Human effort,' he replied, 'is necessary only to learn that human effort as such is useless, and God’s will alone is the real power that controls and brings about all events. When you realise this truth, human effort ceases and divine will starts its work in you, and then you do all things in the freedom of the soul, liberated from care, fear and sorrow. This is the real life to be attained. So leave all things to the Lord by complete surrender to Him.”
― Swami Ramdas, In the Vision of God

“He listened to her with a cool indifference and said: 'Why do you worry over the matter? God’s will is supreme. All things happen as He wills and at the time determined by Him.'

'How can you say so? Do you mean to say then that human effort has no value?' she retorted. 'Human effort,' he replied, 'is necessary only to learn that human effort as such is useless, and God’s will alone is the real power that controls and brings about all events. When you realise this truth, human effort ceases and divine will starts its work in you, and then you do all things in the freedom of the soul, liberated from care, fear and sorrow. This is the real life to be attained. So leave all things to the Lord by complete surrender to Him.”
― Swami Ramdas, In the Vision of God

“Man would not have attributed to Fate
its utterly controversial reputation
were it to act upon man’s will
– for it seems totally impervious to intervention and completely unwilling, at times, to succumb even to His divine will….”
― Irene Doura-Kavadia

“Sometimes we need divine will to protect us from our free will. Divine intervention is never a heavenly punishment or transcendental prank. It is a safeguard for our highest good.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“We must dwell upon the ways of God and say to ourselves that He does not work as man does with his tools, but in a thousand mysterious, subtle, and hidden ways through the very essence of things which are His servants.”
― Romano Guardini Romano Guardini, Art of Praying: The Principles and Methods of Christian Prayer

“For, as I have said before, the storehouses of wickedness are in us ourselves, and those of good alone are with God.”
― Philo of Alexandria, The Works of Philo

“Assent to thy high self, create, endure.

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― Sri Aurobindo, Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

“Banish the thought that praying can ever affect
The edicts of gods.”
― Seamus Heaney, Aeneid Book VI

“All true Alchemy concerns the transmutation of suffering through alignment with Divine Will.”
― Richard Rudd, The Gene Keys: Embracing Your Higher Purpose