Quotes About Divinity

What does it mean to feel something similar to the way God feels? Is that like saying a pebble is similar to the sun because both are round?" he responded. "Maybe God designed our brains to feel love the same way he feels it. He could do that if he wanted to.

it is God Himself who made this possible, by assuming human flesh in Jesus Christ. In doing so, He humanized His divinity, but He also divinized humanity, and thus He sanctified—made holy—everything that fills up a human life: friendship, meals, family, travel, study, and work.

In order that Christ's body might be shown to be a real body, He was born of a woman. In order that His Godhead might be made clear, He was born of a virgin.

We were the first to carve forms: we began The depiction of gods in the image of Man.

PATER SERAPHICUS. Higher rise, still higher, growing Stronger imperceptibly, Near the Divine Presence gaining A more perfect purity! What is it the spirit thrives on, What fills the ethereal space? Endless love whose revelation Blitheness brings, eternal bliss.

Sind Götter! Wundersam eigen, Die sich immerfort selbst erzeugen, Und niemals wissen was sie sind.

Jesus felt pure and calmly thought Only the One God; Who made him to be a god Offends his holy will. And thus the rightness has to shine What Muhammad also achieved; Only by the term of the One He mastered the whole world

Und doch, welch Glück, geliebt zu werden, Und lieben, Götter, welch ein Glück!

When God created us, he founded His living nature for our home; But you sit in this gloom, surrounded By mildred skull and arid bone.

Jesus fühlte rein und dachte Nur den Einen Gott im stillen; Wer ihn selbst zum Gotte machte, Kränkte seinen heiligen Willen.

Was der Mensch als Gott verehrt, ist sein eigenstes Innere herausgekehrt.

Das Wahre, mit dem Göttlichen identisch, läßt sich niemals von uns direkt erkennen, wir schauen es nur im Abglanz, im Beispiel, Symbol, in einzelnen und verwandten Erscheinungen; wir werden es gewahr als unbegreifliches Leben und können dem Wunsch nicht entsagen, es dennoch zu begreifen.

The standard definition of God, "God is light," is just a simple way of saying that God is energy. Electromagnetic energy. He is not a He but an It; a field of energy that permeates the entire universe and, perhaps, feeds off the energy generated by its component parts.

now I am my own mirror and that which I was I am no more, for "I" and "God" is a denial of the unity of God. Since I am no more, God Most High is His own mirror. Now I say that God is the mirror of myself, for with my tongue He speaks and I have passed away.

Anybody who passes more than a day in eternity is as old as God could ever be.

There is no need for God to situate himself in relation to others: he is himself the situation.

See Him in the vernal beauty of the flower, In the ripe glory of the autumnal glow; In summer's rich and radiant festal hour, In winter's purest, fairest robes of snow: There art Thou!

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

One day I had the paradoxical realization that humanity's search for meaning seduces it back into the world of thought and struggle, while pure sensing returns everything to the flow of Divinity. Suddenly the phrase "come to your senses!" is strikingly clear.

for we see Abraham the readier to acknowledge himself but dust and ashes the nearer he approaches to behold the glory of the Lord

On the other hand, it is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he have previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself.

were we ordered to make a temple of wood and stone to the Spirit, inasmuch as such worship is due to God alone, it would be a clear proof of the Spirit's divinity; how much clearer a proof in that we are not to make a temple to him, but to be ourselves that temple.

Man is endowed with a singular excellence, for God formed him in his own image and likeness, in which we see a bright refulgence of God's glory. Furthermore

The worship of God is…the only thing which renders men superior to brutes, and makes them aspire to immortality.