Quotes About Divinity

The Lord is in me, the Lord is in you,as life is in every seed, put false pride away and seek the Lord within..

Yet my study of the history of religion has revealed that human beings are spiritual animals. Indeed, there is a case for arguing that Homo sapiens is also Homo religiosus

The Sufis, the Sunni mystics with whom the Ismailis felt great affinity, had an axiom: "He who knows himself, knows his Lord.

One of the reasons why religion seems irrelevant today is that many of us no longer have the sense that we are surrounded by the unseen.

Ibn al-Arabi imagined the solitary God sighing with longing, but this sigh (nafas rahmani) was not an expression of maudlin self-pity. It had an active, creative force which brought the whole of our cosmos into existence; it also exhaled human beings, who became logoi, words that express God to himself. It follows that each human being is a unique epiphany of the Hidden God, manifesting him in a particular and unrepeatable manner.

People would continue to adopt a particular conception of the divine because it worked for them, not because it was scientifically or philosophically sound.

The unity of God could be glimpsed in the truly integrated self.

After his death, his followers decided that Jesus had been divine. This did not happen immediately; as we shall see, the doctrine that Jesus had been God in human form was not finalized until the fourth century.

human beings were fallen divinities, the forms of the divine world were within them and could be "touched" by reason, which was not simply a rational or cerebral activity but an intuitive grasp of the eternal reality within us.

the sacred reality is not simply transcendent, "out there," but is enshrined in every single human being, who must, therefore, be treated with absolute honor and respect.

For if God Himself became man, this man, what else can this mean but that He declared himself guilty of the contradiction against Himself

God transcends even the undertakings of evangelical theologians.

God does not have to dishonor himself, when he goes into the far country and conceals his glory.

Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.

What if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: "This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more"… Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: "You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.

The gods were on the point of giving up when Brahma said, 'I know where we will hide man's divinity, we will hide it inside him. he will search the whole world but never look inside and find what is already within.

The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.

I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man. . . . . A tree depicts divinest plan, But God himself lives in a man.

If God spent 180 million years making dinosaurs, what makes us think Man is so special, a tick of the clock before midnight?

My faith in man is, at bottom, a faith in God.

The friendship of a great man is a favor of the gods.

For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path.

There is none dwelling in the house but God. When a man is awakened he melts and perishes.