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Quotes About Divinity

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
~ Simone Weil
From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.
~ Sir James Hopwood Jeans
There is surely a piece of Divinity within us, something that was before the Elements, and owes no homage unto the Sun.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
As for those wingy mysteries in divinity, and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never stretched the pia mater of mine.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness.
~ Plato
Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
God! Thou art love! I build my faith on that.
~ Robert Browning
I experience God as the power of life, the power of love and the ground of being. I don't say that's what God is; I say that's my experience of God.
~ John Shelby Spong
It needeth us to have knowing of the littleness of creatures and to hold as nought all-thing that is made, for to love and have God that is unmade.
~ Julian of Norwich
If the entire divinity and domain of God sits in the heart of a person, and his longing becomes timeless, then man can develop the capacity to love.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Love is God's essence; Power but his attribute: therefore is his love greater than his power.
~ Richard B. Garnett
Without Self-confidence there cannot be God. So, first there must be Self-confidence and love of God.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
If ever you want to touch the hand and the heart of God Almighty, you can do it through the body of someone you love. Anytime. Anywhere. Without no middleman.
~ Theodore Sturgeon
That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
~ Blaise Pascal
God made (human beings) because he loves stories.
~ Elie Wiesel
"God" is just a name to refer to something that is beyond all limitations.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?
~ Wallace Stevens
We are all part of a vast sea of love. One indivisible mind.
~ Marianne Williamson
Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets; and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers.
~ Philip James Bailey
...the Gods too love a joke.
~ Plato
<...> God is a person; godliness is a quality. You cannot become God, but you can be godly. <...>.
~ Rajneesh
When you talk about God, the first thing that comes along is not love, it's fear. You have to fear, and be in awe. You have to be scared. Any religion, it's like first thing.
~ Ang Lee
All the manifestations of love can be seen as a connection with our spirituality.
~ John Pierrakos