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Quotes About Divinity

An angry God is the projection and creation of angry people.
~ Marshall Vian Summers
God has many names, you know. Jehovah, Almighty, Everlasting Father, Alpha and Omega . . . But do you know what He calls Himself? I Am. Ask God who He is, and that is what He'll tell you. I Am. Not I was or I'm going to be. But I am. I am here for you now because that's where you need Me. And if God is here, right here, right now, what is there to fear?
~ Martha Williamson
God creates us all in His image. There are no second-class citizens, no minorities, no human being greater or lesser that any other. We are all the same in His eyes.
~ Martha Williamson
Only a god can save us.
~ Martin Heidegger
Nur noch ein Gott kann uns retten.
~ Martin Heidegger
The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names "the gods", can be heard.
~ Martin Heidegger
The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
~ Martin Heidegger
Some Christian writers have argued that the plurality of elohim is a definite indication of the Trinity. This writer, however, believes this is more a result of "reading back" into the text, a conclusion in search of an exegetical base.
~ Marvin R. Wilson
Seeing a sunset, Linnea felt connected both to the earth below and God above.
~ Mary Alice Monroe
Numbers are eternal while everything else is perishable; they are of the nature not of matter, but of mind; they permit mental operations of the most surprising and delightful kind without reference to the coarse external world of the senses-which is how the divine mind must be supposed to operate. The ecstatic contemplation of geometrical forms and mathematical laws is therefore the most effective means of purging the soul of earthly passion, and the principle link between man and divinity.
~ Arthur Koestler
but since every created being is ultimately an emanation of God, partaking of His Essence in a measure diminishing with distance, the soul will always strive upward, to its source.
~ Arthur Koestler
Out of any piece of wood a god may be carved.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Si un Dios ha hecho ese mundo, yo no quisiera ser ese Dios. La miseria del mundo me desgarraría el corazón.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
When you recreate the image of man, why repeat God's mistakes?
~ Arundhati Roy
He tells stories of the gods, but his yarn is spun from the ungodly, human heart.
~ Arundhati Roy
The concept of "the chosen people" is thus turned, in the plastic hands of Hinduism, into the "choosing people"—Hindus choose the gods they worship.
~ Arvind Sharma
But I loved her, because she moved like she felt she was somebody special, like she was somebody I'd like to know someday. She moved like how I thought god's mother must have moved, and my mother, once upon a time, and someday maybe me.
~ Audre Lorde
He really is the most arrogant person I've ever come across. 'I am, therefore God exists'. ALICE
~ August Strindberg
God, I felt certain, did not mind that I didn't press my hands together to pray. I was casual, but I was sincere. I knew that God existed as the Correct Answer inside my chest.
~ Augusten Burroughs
When I ate vanilla frosting straight from the can, I could feel God standing right next to me like a real best friend, watching, and smiling, and wishing he had a mouth.
~ Augusten Burroughs
I came to think that maybe God was what you believed in because you needed to feel you weren't alone.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Be ugly, be God
~ Ayn Rand
the border between the human and divine was fluid for Cleopatra.
~ Stacy Schiff
Swami Muktananda, the head of the Siddha Yoga tradition, used to say, "God dwells in you as You.
~ Stanislav Grof