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Quotes About Divinity

In this one man, the whole Church has been assumed by the Word.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
We are He, since we are His body and since He was made man in order to be our Head.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
He who disdained not to assume us unto Himself, did not disdain to take our place and speak our words, in order that we might speak His words.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery; it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not.
~ St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Every day He humbles Himself just as He did when from from His heavenly throne into the Virgin's womb; every day He comes to us and lets us see Him in lowliness, when He descends from the bosom of the Father into the hands of the priest at the altar.
~ St. Francis Of Assisi
I believe we shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavouring to know God, for, beholding His greatness we are struck by our own baseness, His purity shows our foulness, and by meditating on His humility we find how very far we are from being humble. 11.
~ St. Teresa of Avila
I will declare to you plainly, the highest and most perfect matter one hopes to attain is to draw near to God, and abide as one with Him.
~ St. Theophan the Recluse
What, after all, is the difference between a sectarian school which disallows challenges to the divinity of Christ and a so-called nonideological school which disallows discussion of the same question? In both contexts something goes without saying and something else cannot be said (Christ is not God or he is). There is of course a difference, not however between a closed environment and an open one but between environments that are differently closed.
~ Stanley Fish
In the Craft, we do not believe in the Goddess ~~ we connect with her; through the moon, the stars, the ocean, the earth, through trees, animals, through other human beings, through ourselves. She is here. She is within us all
~ Starhawk
Selten gewähren die Götter dem Sterblichen mehr als eine einzige unsterbliche Tat.
~ Stefan Zweig
To sum up, salvation to the Gnostic means not reconciliation with an angry God by way of the death of his son, but rather liberation from the stupor induced by earthly existence and an awakening by way of gnosis.
~ Stephan A. Hoeller
The soul lived long before it entered your body and will live long after it leaves it.
~ Stephanie Arnold
Jesus entered as he did, where he did, doing what he did because God needed us to finally comprehend the truth: God is not a sky king who heads an empire. God is the love that gives itself away for the sake of more love.
~ Stephanie Spellers
Truth is to be sought with a mind purified from the passions of the body. Having overcome evil things, thou shalt experience the union of the union mortal divinity with the mortal man.
~ Pythagoras
Speak the truth. Give whatever you can. Never be angry. These three steps will lead you Into the presence of the gods.
~ Gautama Buddha
Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.
~ Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock
The absolute truth is that the 'I' is perfect and complete; the real 'I' is spiritual and can therefor never be less than perfect; it can never have any lack, limitation, or disease.
~ Charles F. Haanel
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love is the only truth; everything else is an illusion.
~ Pema Chodron
This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist
~ Pope John Paul II
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
~ Demosthenes
His words are the essence of truth...Jesus never uttered opinions. He never guessed; He knew, and He knows.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
He who is called Krishna is also Siva and the Primal Sakti...He again, who is called Jesus and Allah. Truth is one.
~ Ramakrishna
I am here no longer just a vision birthed into this body I accept my praise, my blame, my joy, my sorrow I realize we are, in truth, the truth we seek God, perfect this very moment.
~ Meshell Ndegeocello
Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being... ultimate reality is what we call God.
~ R. S. Thomas