Quotes About Divinity

God has vindicated Jesus.

The central idea of Christianity is the claim that Jesus is the Anointed One sent from heaven.

Si tu as l'intention de juger les actes des dieux, Walliesmith, tu dois savoir ce que les dieux savent.

I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.

I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

Art is Man's nature. Nature is god's art.

Yet I am content. For I have served that dream which I elected to be serving. It may be that no man is royal, and that no god is divine, and that our mothers and our wives have not any part in holiness. Oh, yes, it very well may be that I have lost honor and applause, and that I take destruction, through following after a dream which has in it no truth. Yet my dream was noble; and its nobility contents me.

Earth's crammed with heaven; And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees, takes off his shoes, The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries. — Elizabeth Baccett Browning

All of these imitators imitated Jesus for one reason: because he was God made man.

The woods are but the ears of the Almighty, the air is his breath, and the light of the sun is little more than a glance of his eye.

Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song?

If there is a god, I think he has a sense of humour. He does not require human beings to protect him from satire.

Anything that makes me feel better (or worse) than another is darkness; anything that makes me feel one with others is divine. So the natural instinct to try to lift others by helping them to feel good about themselves relative to others is exactly the wrong way to help. True happiness is found not in a belief that I am better but in the obliteration of any need to be.

it is righteous for God to seek his own glory. He is God and has no other gods before himself.

in spite of how we know the story unfolded, God included mankind in His conclusion that all He created was good.

When an artist captures a mountain or an ocean on a canvas with color and we wonder where such talent could come from, he or she is declaring His glory.

We are only prepared to receive and comprehend the grace of God when we have understood His infinite holiness and our incredible sinfulness.

Wayne Grudem, my friend and seminary professor, put it well: "God does not have size or spatial dimensions and is present at every point of space with His whole being, yet God acts differently in different places."19

In our humanness we can't handle all His holiness; so God, in mercy, raises the veil and dwells in mystery.

Only God is perfect! None of us comes within a country, not a country mile, but a whole country, in proximity to perfection.

Fully human and fully divine" is, to use a loaded word, a mystery. Something not to be solved, but to be pondered.

Jesus often says, "Follow me," but never "Worship me."5 It's a needed reminder to those who would focus only on his divinity.)

Our souls recognize God because they were created by God.

God was forever generous with His gifts: hope, love, truth, and the belief in the indestructability of the good in all people.