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Quotes About Divinity

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
~ Francis Bacon, Sr.
Jesus rose bodily from the dead. His whole person is with God, but he is still in contact with the world, with each of us. Jesus is with the Father and the Holy Spirit, but he is constantly acting on us in the world. Free of all the bonds of space and time, the risen Jesus can be wherever he wants to be. And he wants to be with us.
~ Francis Cardinal George, OMI
And indeed what are the heavens, the earth, nay every creature, but Hieroglyphics and Emblems of [God's] Glory?
~ Francis Quarles
Si existe Dios asumirá el fracaso.
~ Francisco Brines
Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.
~ Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Of course, of course. Mr. Buzzby, did it ever occur to you that a god may live, figuratively, a dog's life?' 'Eh?' 'Gods are transfigured, you know. They go up in smoke, as it were. In smoke and flame. They become pure flame, pure spirit, creatures with no visible body.' ("A Visitor From Egypt")
~ Frank Belknap Long
You want proof there's a God? Look outside, watch a sunset.
~ Frank Peretti
Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.
~ Frank Peretti
All theology consists in finding out what is meant by the words "He is." Let us begin.
~ Frank Sheed
Eternity is not time at all. It is God's total possession of Himself.
~ Frank Sheed
It is of the very nature of partial seeing that we cannot see all the reconciliation of the parts we see, because it is only in the whole that they are one, and we do not see the whole. The word we form cannot wholly express God: only the Word He generates can do that. To be irked at this necessary darkness is as though we were irked at not being God.
~ Frank Sheed
There is no external operation of the divine nature which is the work of one Person as distinct from the Others.
~ Frank Sheed
ignorance about the Supreme Being is worse poverty than ignorance about any of the lesser beings He has created of nothing.
~ Frank Sheed
He made all things from nothing, and these perfections will be in things only in so far as nothingness can receive them, or to put it crudely, with a certain mingling of nothingness: whereas they are in God in utter purity.
~ Frank Sheed
where was God before the universe existed—fades away into the inconsiderable question: what created thing was being held in existence by the power of God before there was any created thing?
~ Frank Sheed
Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God
~ Frank Viola
Mithra became the Sun,
~ Franz Cumont
Die Inspiration war mein Gott und ist es geblieben.
~ Franz Grillparzer
Of course you are discontented," God thundered. "I made you discontented, because if you weren't discontented, why would you bother to try to become better?" "Better than what?" I asked, trembling in spite of myself. "Better than Me," cried God.
~ Frederik Pohl
Ein Gott ist der Mensch, wenn er träumt, ein Bettler, wenn er nachdenkt.
~ Friedrich Hölderlin
I grew up in the arms of the gods.
~ Friedrich Hölderlin
Near andHard to grasp, the god.Yet where danger lies,Grows that which saves.
~ Friedrich Hölderlin
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche