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Quotes About Divinity

There are carnivores, but not many. Symbiosis is the basic fact of life. That, and worship. Whistletop says all of the higher life forms owe allegiance to a godhead, and the seat of divinity is in the hub. I've been thinking of a goddess that rules the whole circle of the land. I call her Gaia, for the Greek mother.
~ John Varley
Religion is sin when it makes God into something which we can handle.
~ John Webster
Absolute perfection belongs not to man, nor to angels, but to God alone.
~ John Wesley
Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God.
~ John Wesley
How many people could say truthfully their god was a few feet away from them, made flesh, and that heaven was to be by his side?
~ John Wiltshire
But, as I understand it, your God is a universal God; He is God on all suns and all planets. Surely, then, He must have universal form? Would it not be a staggering vanity to imagine that He can manifest Himself only in the form that is appropriate to this particular, not very important planet?
~ John Wyndham
They haven't God's word like they thought: God doesn't have any last word. If He did He'd be dead. But He isn't dead; and He changes and grows, like everything else that's alive
~ John Wyndham
complaining woman was like pushing dirt beneath the fingernails of God
~ Elizabeth Strout
It is dangerous to think people human, who once have been divine.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
I sometimes think God must be a woman--He is expected to forgive so much.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Who but a God Could draw from light and moisture, heat and cold, And fashion in earth's mould, A multitude of blooms to deck one sod?
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
That we might become acquainted with His divine character and life, Christ took our nature and dwelt among us. Divinity was revealed in humanity; the invisible glory in the visible human form. Men could learn of the unknown through the known; heavenly things were revealed through the earthly; God was made manifest in the likeness of men.
~ Ellen G. White
Through transgression the sons of man become subjects of Satan. Through faith in the atoning sacrifice of Christ the sons of Adam may become the sons of God. By assuming human nature, Christ elevates humanity.
~ Ellen G. White
By contemplation of God's matchless love, we take upon us His nature. Christ
~ Ellen G. White
La genealogía de nuestro linaje, como ha sido revelada, no hace remontar su origen a una serie de gérmenes, moluscos o cuadrúpedos, sino al gran Creador.
~ Ellen G. White
Hope thou in God. The Lord Jesus has made it manifest that He regards you at an infinite estimation. He left His royal throne, He left His royal courts, He clothed His divinity with humanity, and died a shameful death upon the cross of Calvary, that you might be saved.—The Review and Herald, June 29, 1897.
~ Ellen G. White
He would leave his high position as the Majesty of heaven, appear upon earth and humble himself as a man, and by his own experience become acquainted with the sorrows and temptations which man would have to endure.
~ Ellen G. White
By coming to dwell with us, Jesus was to reveal God both to men and to angels. He was the Word of God,--God's thought made audible. In
~ Ellen Gould White
well, it sounds strange, but when i think of God, i think of a soft whirring noise - like a spinning ball of energy - something i can tap into when i need it.
~ Ellen Wittlinger
God created us to be worshipers because it is right that he be known, loved and worshiped. This isn't because he is needy and wishes someone would tell him how special he is. No, it's because he is perfect and the worship of his perfection is holiness in action.
~ Elyse Fitzpatrick
This new church is the crown of all the churches that have ever existed on this planet because it will worship the one God, who can be seen, within whom is the God that cannot be seen, like a soul in a body.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
El Señor no envía a nadie al infierno, es el mismo espíritu el que se arroja a él.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
Historical faith causes the Lord to be present, because it is an intuition of the Lord from the quality of His Divinity. That faith does not save, until man lives the life of faith, which is charity, for he then wills and does the things which he believes, and to will and to do is of the love, and love conjoins him whom faith causes to be present.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg