Quotes About Divinity

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, And daub their natural faces unaware.

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God;

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

If you could disagree with kings, were gods so far above?

The only God is in the numbers and the fire; in the equations and the furnace

The ladder these angels must climb was the double helix. And then they would be God. They, who were splinters of God.

The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.

4. God made angels. Angels are, broadly speaking, copies of humans, whom God did not make.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body nature is, and God the soul.

God and monster all in one, and mine to worship. ~Kyla

God is always doing geometry. —Saying attributed to Plato

The one great lesson Origen learned from his Neoplatonist teachers was that every human being was made in the image of God, in the same way Plato described all material objects as made in the image of the Forms.31 Of course, the most perfect of God's images was Jesus Christ himself, His only begotten son. However, everyone of every race, sex, age, or creed, from the lowest slave to the emperor himself, carried that same reflection of perfection.

Holy Scripture and Nature are both emanations from the divine Word." Like other Platonists, Galileo didn't have to see God to believe in Him. He only had to feel His perfection in His creation and stand aside in awe.

Being "civilized" had originally meant living under Roman, or "civil," law; but at the dawn of the Renaissance it had come to denote a way of life and law distinct from that of barbarism. It included prohibitions against murder, incest, and cannibalism; belief in a transcendant creative divinity; respect for property and legal contracts; and essential social institutions such as marriage, friendship, and the family.

The foundation of all foundations and the pillar of all wisdom is to know God." His message is that

I lay in bed and watched moments break into phenomenal particles of panic and could actually see the divine crack of God's ass as he completely turned his back on me.

God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.

The processes revealed by the sciences, especially evolutionary biology, are in themselves God-acting-as-creator. There is no need to look for God as some kind of additional factor supplementing the processes of the world. God, to use language usually applied in sacramental theology, is "in, with, and under" all-that-is and all-that-goes-on

But to explore the invisible and to hear the unheard are very different from reviving the dead: Baudelaire is therefore first among seers, the king of poets, a true God .

Ah,m? simt atât de p?r?sit,încât i-aÅŸ închina oric?rei icoane dumnezeieÅŸti elanurile mele spre perfecÅ£ine.

Dieu est-il le rêve de l'humanité? Ce serait trop beau. L'humanité est-elle le rêve de Dieu? Ce serait trop abominable.

Sky was the first god. Robert knew that there was only one God and he had a Son who was also God, but there were gods who had vanished: the gods of thunder, of fire, of the wide oceans of the earth.

Were it in anywise possible for something to occur apart from either the direct agency or permission of God, then that something would be independent of Him, and He would at once cease to be Supreme. Now

But there was a special reason for mentioning His "side" here—see John 19:34: through His pierced side a way was opened to His heart, the seat of the affections! In John we see Him as the Son of God, and God is love.