Quotes About Divinity

To bestow on your fellow men is a Godlike attribute--So indeed it is and as such not one fit for mortality;--the giver, like Adam and Prometheus, must pay the penalty of rising above his nature by being the martyr of his own excellence.

Not as others had wanted to learn, for power or excitement, or for the prosecution of some enmity or private greed; but because he had seen, darkly with a child's eyes, how the gods move with the winds and speak with the sea and sleep in the gentle herbs; and how God himself is in the sum of all that is on the face of the lovely earth.

Frightful must it be; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavour to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.

God loves all that he has created. And so anyone who, in loving God, loves all his fellow creatures loves all that is.

goodness surrounds us in the manifestation of all of nature but it also flows through us on a regular basis; it is Spirit at work in and through us.

Fourteen billion years of evolution and unfolding of the universe bespeak the intimate sacredness of all that is.

It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.

If there was one thing I understood about God, it was that he was not good, and if he was good, he was too powerless to deserve our attention.

But I'll tell you a secret. When I want to take God at his word exactly I take a peep out the window at His Creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us every day, without a lot of dubious middle managers.

To have been made the creatures we are is a marvel. If the process required millennia rather than seven days, how can it be any less sublime?

One god draws in the breath of life and rises; another god expires.

Tata Jesus is bangala!

God made us the butt of the joke universe.

But I'll tell you a secret. When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His Creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us every day, without a lot of dubious middle managers.

Immortality is only for the gods," he whispered. "I wonder how they can stand it.

God was the ultimate source of all that was divine. But there were lower divinities as well. Even within monotheistic Judaism.

In ancient Judaism the king of Israel was considered both Son of God and—astonishingly enough—even God.

Jews also believed that divinities could become human and humans could become divine.

some believers took the Christological views of the Gospel to an extreme and maintained that Jesus was so much God that he could not really have been a man. The book 1 John was written, then, to counter that view by insisting that 'Jesus Christ came in the flesh' and that anyone who refused to acknowledge his fleshly existence was in fact an antichrist.

But one thing they all (i.e., E. P. Sanders, Geza Vermes, Dale Allison, Paula Fredriksen, and many others) agree on: Jesus did not spend his ministry declaring himself to be divine.

If Jesus really were equal with God from "the beginning," before he came to earth, and he knew it, then surely the Synoptic Gospels would have mentioned this at some point. Wouldn't that be the most important thing about him? But no, in Matthew, Mark, and Luke he does not talk about himself in this way—nor does he do so in their sources (Q, M, and L).

The time when Christianity arose, with its exalted claims about Jesus, was the same time when the emperor cult had started to move into full swing, with its exalted claims about the emperor. Christians were calling Jesus God directly on the heels of the Romans calling the emperor God.

Eventually Jesus came to be seen as God in every respect, coeternal with the Father, of the same substance as the Father, equal to the Father within the Trinity of three persons, but one God.

A human being (say, a great ruler or warrior or holy person) could be made divine