Quotes About Divinity

He only is independently, infinitely, immutably holy. In Scripture He is frequently styled "The Holy One": He is so because the sum of all moral excellency is found in Him. He is absolute Purity, unsullied even by the shadow of sin. "God

the God of Scripture is no make-believe monarch, no mere imaginary sovereign, but King of kings, and Lord of lords. "I

This earth of ours is old, how old we do not know, possibly millions of years. But "the word" was before all things. He was not only from the beginning, but He was "in the beginning.

Well did the Puritan Sibbes say, "God, to show His love to us, showed Himself God in this: that He could be God and go so low as to die" (Vol. 5, p. 327).

WE CANNOT have a right conception of God unless we think of Him as all-powerful, as well as all-wise. He who cannot do what he will and perform all his pleasure cannot be God. As God hath a will to resolve what He deems good, so has He power to execute His will.

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

I believe in divinity. Like the goodness that works through people. The God inside humanity.

The Son of God became man so that we might become God.

I decided that one of the things Man doesn't need in this Universe is for God to have a sense of humor, especially a lousy one.

God created everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through" (Paul Valery).

There is no one creator, but there is the realm of creation.

God is the only lover and He loves in different forms -- parents, husband, wife, friend, children, animals. All are His forms and He, Himself, has no form.

Our humanity were a poor thing but for the Divinity that stirs within us.

Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.

In reading, you sense the divine: the things that are larger and greater and more mysterious than yourself.

I know God is real.

There, but for the grace of God, goes God.

To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.

God is the most ancient of all things, for he had no birth.

You mortals arose from the possibility she made and, though she always liked to think so, are consequently not of her direct design.

No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us. —1 John 4:12