Quotes About Divinity

What is salvation? To live with God. Where? Anywhere. Here this moment. One moment in infinite time is quite as good as any other moment.

Every time I look in the mirror, God looks back.

I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in love with the young widow, I think, nor she with me - that's certain - but if I find a little pleasure in her society I may surely be allowed to seek it; and if the star of her divinity be bright enough to dim the lustre of Eliza's, so much the better, but I scarcely can think it

What is God?—I cannot see Him or hear Him.—God is only an idea." '"God is Infinite Wisdom, and Power, and Goodness—and Love;

And then I saw the eternal stars twinkling down upon me; I knew their God was mine.

People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things.

The difference between you and God is that God doesn't think He's you.

I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.

What's the difference between you and God? God never thinks he's you.

when humans experience something as powerful as a forest or a rainbow, it is not crazy to assign its existence to a Greater Intelligence.

What a paradox: that we connect with God, with divinity, in our flesh and blood and time and space. We connect with God in our humanity. A great truth, attributed to Emily Dickinson, is that "hope inspires the good to reveal itself." This is almost all I ever need to remember. Gravity and sadness yank us down, and hope gives us a nudge to help one another get back up or to sit with the fallen on the ground, in the abyss, in solidarity.

The medieval German mystic Meister Eckhart said that if the soul could have known God without the world, God never would have created the world.

I mean "God" as shorthand for the Good, for the animating energy of love; for Life, for the light that radiates from within people and from above; in the energies of nature, even in our rough, messy selves.

When Sam was six or so, he explained to me why we call God God: Because when you see something so great, you just go, 'God!

We religious types, even those who detest organized religion, pray for deeper faith and a greater sense of oneness with God.

In the chapel you prayed to be a saint and now I will make you a god.

Exactly, and consequently if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God and that Satan is simply God's child, and that we are God's children also. There are no children of Satan, really.

I saw it, and I knew that he spoke the truth. I would always see it. I would see the spark of the Creator in every human life I ever encountered, and in every human life I took.

A flame burned in him, a faith that a comprehending Power existed, animating all this that it had created, and sustaining it with a love beyond anything that he, Reuben, could imagine.

First and foremost, there is one God, and his name does not matter. Yahweh, Ahuramazda, Zeus, Aten, it does not matter at all.

The world was one thing, but all people are not of it. Some are better than it, apart from it, more splendid, untouchable and pure.

And not having had any true gods of my own, I speak of all gods as if they were poetry.

Without Satan, how could there have been the Christ?

God is love. But I'm not sure God is absolutely brilliant.