Quotes About Divinity

Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.

Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best He ever planted.

No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.

Is God really with us? The answer to the question is "yes." God has come to take up residence with us as one of us. How has that fact been accomplished? By giving him a human mother but no human father.

Christ has taken our nature into heaven   to represent us, and has left us on earth   with his nature to represent him."                                       - John Newton

Contemplation places us in a purity and radiance which is far above our understanding.

Laughter's the nearest we ever get, or should get, to sainthood. It's the state of grace that saves most of us from contempt.

I ... believe that angels, or something like them, sometimes live among us, hidden within our fellow human beings.

God without Christ is no God.

We are more than a collection of appetites - we are of God.

Jesus - "the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily" (Colossians 2:9).

Por ejemplo, después de decir que el Verbo "era Dios", Juan dice: "Y el Verbo se hizo hombre y habitó entre nosotros. Y hemos contemplado su gloria, la gloria que corresponde al Hijo unigénito del Padre […] De Su plenitud todos hemos recibido gracia sobre gracia" (Juan 1:14-16).

Christmas means: the infinitely self-sufficient God has come not to be assisted but to be enjoyed.

The root meaning of the Old Testament word for holiness is the idea of being separate—different and separated from the ordinary. And when applied to God, this separateness implies that he is in a class by himself. He is like a one-of-a-kind diamond, supremely valuable. We can use the word transcendent for this kind of divine separateness. He is so uniquely separate that he transcends all other reality. He is above it and more valuable than all of it.

Therefore, the reason God seeks our praise is not because He won't be complete until He gets it. He is seeking our praise because we won't be complete until we give it. This is not arrogance. It is love.

It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.

God came to earth to personally explain how man could be saved from eternal death. Think of it this way. You see a bulldozer clearing a road, but in its path lies an anthill. You know the ants are about to be destroyed, but what can you do about it? The only answer would be to become an ant and warn them in the way ants warn each other of impending danger. …Jesus came into the world to save sinners… 1 Timothy 1:15 NASB

Most people do not die, they cease to exist. In order to die, you first have to live. Signed: God

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

So the first step that those of us who wish to explore the meaning of resurrection must take is to recognize that the founding moment of the Christian story is not about either an empty tomb or the resuscitation of a deceased body. Its original proclamation asserted that in some manner God had raised Jesus into being part of who God is. Jesus was raised by God into God.

When a human life is open to all that humanity can be, humanity and divinity flow together as one. It was and is a radical insight, and one the consciousness of the mystic is destined to understand.

Hallowed be thy name" means that the ultimate, the mystical, the ineffable can never be captured in human words. Perhaps we need to learn from the Jews that if one speaks the name of God, one is pretending that one is able to know and to define God, which is the beginning of human idolatry. That is when we begin to create God in our own image, while pretending it is the other way around. Perhaps

There is only one Goddess, even to the angels. Gaea is known to all the races within her.