Quotes About Divinity

May we be open to seeing God in the most unlikely places and people. — Mary Beth Oostenbrug —

God replied to Moses, "I Am Who I Am. Say this to the people of Israel: I Am has sent me to you." —Exodus 3:14

Don't you realize that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you? —1 Corinthians 3:16

It doesn't matter when Jesus was born—only that He lives within us. — Jeanette Gardner Littleton

for now just try to remember that if God is perfect Love, then He is not anything else, and neither are you. You are, in fact, the Love of God, and your real life is with Him. Like J, you will come to know and experience that God is not outside of you. You will no longer identify yourself with a vulnerable body or anything else that can be limited, and a body is anything that has borders or limits. You will learn instead of your true reality as pure spirit that is invulnerable forever.

but for now just try to remember that if God is perfect Love, then He is not anything else, and neither are you. You are, in fact, the Love of God, and your real life is with Him. Like J, you will come to know and experience that God is not outside of you. You will no longer identify yourself with a vulnerable body or anything else that can be limited, and a body is anything that has borders or limits. You will learn instead of your true reality as pure spirit that is invulnerable forever.

We do not have to ascend to God; rather, the good news is that He has descended to us.

It had been washed clean of beauty. In the final reckoning there is only love, only that divinity. That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.

He said I had been touched by a god, and that I am a holy man. I said, "If I have been touched by a god, it was only to curse me." He nodded. "All who are touched by gods are holy.

To be cursed by a god is to be touched by a god. To be touched by any god is to share divinity in some small measure. When the high priest leaves the sanctuary he strips off his clothing and bathes. Did you know that? His clothing is burned." I

We can think only of creatures, of things He's made. Creatures are all we know, and can be all we know until we know Him. When we think of Him like that, we find we can't believe. He can't be like a creature any more than a carpenter is like a table.

Only the solitary may see the gods," the giant told me. "For the rest, every god is the Unknown God.

In the final reckoning there is only love, only that divinity. That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.

Surely the Pancreator knows all mysteries. He spoke the long word that is our Universe and few things happen that are not part of that word.

A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun.

Wake up to the riot of life around you every second. The singer Pearl Bailey said, "People see God every day; they just don't recognize Him.

I can do without anybody. I have my own soul: my own spark of divine fire.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespear and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.

How can He be perfect? Everything He ever makes...dies.

That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil -- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.

But God lasts when everything else is gone. What shall we do if he is not our friend?

I believe that God made this wonderful universe and all that exists.

This earth indeed is the very Body of God, and it is from this body that we are born, live, suffer, and resurrect to eternal life. Either all is God's Great Project, or we may rightly wonder whether anything is God's Great Project. One wonders if we humans will be the last to accept this.