Quotes About Divinity

To trace the history of a river or a raindrop . . . is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. In both, we constantly seek and stumble upon divinity, which like feeding the lake, and the spring becoming a waterfall, feeds, spills, falls, and feeds itself all over again.

An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

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Je m'ennuie – Je voudrais être crevé, être ivre, ou être Dieu pour faire des farces. Et merde.

Every authentically loved being is a kind of god.

If the average man is made in God's image, then such a man as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God....

The worshiper is the father of the gods.

Once apparently the chief concern and masterpiece of the gods, the human race now begins to bear the aspect of an accidental by-product of their vast, inscrutable and probably nonsensical operations.

When, long ago, the gods created Earth In Jove's fair image Man was shap'd at birth. The beasts for lesser parts were next design'd; Yet were they too remote from humankind. To fill the gap, and join the rest to man, Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan. A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure, Fill'd it with vice, and call'd the thing a NIGGER.

There is no need to travel a great distance to touch the Kingdom of God, because it is not located in space or time.

We can touch the Kingdom of God in everyday life.

The angel plucks a large handful of flowers, and they carry it with them up to God, where the flowers bloom more brightly than they ever did on earth.

If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transcends them, you have bad consequences. Rome and Cardinal O'Connor base the exclusion of women priests on the idea that God is the Father and Jesus is His Son, there were only male disciples, etc. They are defending a patriarchal Church with a patriarchal God. We must fight the patriarchal misunderstanding of God.

The face he showed in Jesus is really his true and single face.

There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.

God is just what happens when humanity is connected. Humanity connected is god. Each one of us is a creator but, together, we are THE creator.

One need not scale the heights of the heavens, nor travel along the highways of the world to find Ahura Mazda. With purity of mind and holiness of heart one can find Him in one's own heart.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.

The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

In the eyes of a seer, every leaf of a tree is a page of the Holy Book and contains divine revelation.

The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees; Hazel seeds into hazel trees; And God seeds into God.

Jesus cursed a living tree and it died; Mohammed blessed a dead tree and it lived.

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.