Quotes About Divinity

Vocês contemplam, mas não têm olhos; ouvem, mas os vossos ouvidos estão surdos. Porque em vocês não há amor divino, porque são como barris vazios…

I've heard that about your people. But how can one God do everything? He would have to be huge, and he would have to be everywhere

Yet I knew life did not end with death. David spoke of living after this life, and so did Job. Enoch and Elijah had been taken away, and where did they go? Surely they were with HaShem.

First there wasn't, then there was. Before God no one was.

Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence.

I titled the book 'Homo Deus' because we really are becoming gods in the most literal sense possible. We are acquiring abilities that have always been thought to be divine abilities - in particular, the ability to create life. And we can do with that whatever we want.

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.

I'm a big fan of talking about God. Whether people believe in God or not, that's so fascinating. Or where you go when you die is fascinating.

Hardly can it be judged whether it be better for mankind to believe that the gods have regard of us, or that they have none, considering that some men have no respect and reverence for the gods, and others so much that their superstition is a shame to them.

The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.

The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.

Wherever I go, God rules. When I walk on White House grounds, God walks on White House grounds. I have every right and authority to declare the White House holy ground, because I was standing there and where I stand is holy.

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.

If I'm writing and doing music celebrating the Creator, who is the most creative being in the world - I mean, when you look at nature and when you look at all of the beautiful created things - why should I be limited in expressing myself? He's creative, so why shouldn't my music be creative, too?

Just as Divinity descends in a certain manner, to the extent that one communicates with Nature, so one ascends to Divinity through Nature, just as by means of a life resplendent in natural things one rises to the life that presides over them.

God in fact does not change: he is faithful to himself.

Deep down, I know that I am a child of God who has inherited divine capacities; some of them I strive to develop, others are left languishing. I also have a human side. I lose my temper, lose patience and sometimes judge others and myself.

If someone asks me whether I have seen God in flesh and blood, my answer would be that I believe that a temple priest is the God in front of me.

I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.

There is a Spark of Divinity in YOU. What are you doing to fan it into flame? Are you giving it a chance to grow, to express itself, to become an all-consuming fire? Are you giving it work to do? Are you making it seek out ever greater worlds to conquer? Or are you letting it slumber neglected, or perhaps even smothering it with doubt and fear?

A fire-mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell, A jellyfish and a saurian, A cave where the cave men dwell; Then a sense of law and order, A face upturned from the clod; Some call it Evolution, And others call it God." Reprinted from The New England Journal.

Gods have a way of sprouting from vacant lots.

forget all this foolishness; leave the arguments to the pashus, and you worship God in whatever form you please.

The twentieth-century theologian Karl Rahner commented that "God" is the last sound we should make before falling silent, and Saint Augustine, long ago, said, "si comprehendis, non est Deus" (if you understand, that isn't God). All of this formal theologizing is but commentary on that elusive and confounding voice from the burning bush: "I am who am.