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Quotes About Divinity

The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.
~ Robert Jordan
To draw close to Divinity is to come to appreciate man as a divine creation, for "If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 343).
~ Robert L. Millet
A cat is only technically an animal, being divine.
~ Robert Lynd
When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.
~ Robert Mapplethorpe
Because he knew in his very bones that there could be no reason, nor any special purpose, for a Divinity. Mankind had made it all up out of whole cloth because, at bottom, everyone was afraid of the dark, afraid of ultimate extinction, afraid to face the fact that individual lives meant nothing in the grand scheme of a vast and utterly indifferent cosmos.
~ Robert Masello
Einstein knew that its central thesis was wrong. Why? Because he knew in his very bones that there could be no reason, nor any special purpose, for a Divinity. Mankind had made it all up out of whole cloth because, at bottom, everyone was afraid of the dark, afraid of ultimate extinction, afraid to face the fact that individual lives meant nothing in the grand scheme
~ Robert Masello
But Einstein knew that its central thesis was wrong. Why? Because he knew in his very bones that there could be no reason, nor any special purpose, for a Divinity. Mankind had made it all up out of whole cloth because, at bottom, everyone was afraid of the dark, afraid of ultimate extinction, afraid to face the fact that individual lives meant nothing in the grand scheme of a vast and utterly indifferent cosmos.
~ Robert Masello
There are no gods, only one, and he's too sublime to help.
~ Robert Walser
The gods are fugitive guests of literature.
~ Roberto Calasso
ardor which is tapas; the name Indra
~ Roberto Calasso
you begin to sense the sacredness of your being.
~ Robin S. Sharma
On the subject of God. He is not dead; and he is not a fable. He is not mocked nor forgotten — Successfully. God is a lion that comes in the night. God is a hawk gliding among the stars —
~ Robinson Jeffers
Vishnu Vishnu Vishnu regarded regarded regarded Brahma Brahma Brahma... They sat in the Hall of Mirrors.
~ Roger Zelazny
While it shows the gods as no better than the rest of us, she said, at least, it shows them as no worse. See here the sources of human morality.
~ Roger Zelazny
I know no gods, but if any care to be with us, I welcome them.
~ Roger Zelazny
Hallowed be Thy name, if a name Thou hast and any desire to see it hallowed.
~ Roger Zelazny
Think not less of me in my omniscience, said Brahma, stifling a yawn with his scepter, if I admit to having, for the moment, forgotten these figures.
~ Roger Zelazny
Todo lo que es anacrónico es obsceno. Como divinidad (moderna), la Historia es represiva, la Historia nos prohíbe ser inactuales. Del pasado, no soportamos más que la ruina, el monumento, el kitsch o el retro, que es divertido; reducimos ese pasado a su sola rúbrica.
~ Roland Barthes
In one glowing passage, Hamilton invoked the colonists' natural rights: "The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
~ Ron Chernow
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
~ Ron Chernow
A god who can create the laws of nature can presumably also circumvent them at will. Although why they would have been circumvented so liberally thousands of years ago, before the invention of modern communication instruments that could have recorded them, and not today, is still something to wonder about.
~ Lawrence M. Krauss
So I cast my lot with him—not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the one who claimed to be a prophet, Muhammad, but with the one who claimed to be God in human flesh. The one who declared, 'Before Abraham was born, I am'46  Ã¢â'¬â€and proved it.
~ Lee Strobel
no ha habido tiempo en la historia en donde la evidencia sólida de la ciencia confirme mejor la existencia de Dios que hoy día.
~ Lee Strobel
Back at my motel, I mentally played back my interview with Boyd. I felt the same way he did: If the Jesus of faith is not also the Jesus of history, he's powerless and he's meaningless. Unless he's rooted in reality, unless he established his divinity by rising from the dead, he's just a feel-good symbol who's as irrelevant as Santa Claus.
~ Lee Strobel