Quotes About Divinity

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

Beauty attached to God is sacrament, cut off from God it becomes an idol.

Geometrically speaking, the Intellect is a ray rather than a circle, it emanates from God rather than reflecting Him. "Allah is known to Himself alone" say the Sufis; this saying, while it apparently excludes man from a direct and total knowledge, in reality enunciates the essential and mysterious divinity of pure Intellect; formulae of this kind are only fully understandable in the light of the often quoted hadith: "He who knows his soul knows his Lord.

The very sense of wondering is God wondering.

Welcome , Ruin said, to godhood .

You want to fight a god? You'd better have one on your side too.

The world was dying. Its gods had to die with it.

The religions in my portfolio weren't useless after all, he thought, the power flowing from him and remaking the world. None of them were. They weren't all true. But they all had truth.

Long ago, there was only One. One knew everything, but had experienced nothing. And so, One became many—us, people. The One, who is both male and female, did so to experience all things.

The God King's superiority was arbitrary, much like Lightsong's divinity— both part of a grand game of make-believe. But he'd found that imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives.

Apparently, gods could cry.

Hair is gross. It seems smart to shave it off." "You have hair." "I do not; I just have me. Think about it, Kaladin. Everything else that comes out of your body you dispose of quickly and quietly—but this strange stuff oozes out of little holes in your head, and you let it sit there? Gross." "Not all of us have the luxury of being fragments of divinity." "Actually, everything is a fragment of divinities. We're relatives that way.

I don't have to believe," the voice drifted back. "I know gods exist. I simply hate them.

Not all of us have the luxury of being fragments of divinity. Actually, everything is a fragment of divinities.

Dehumanizing and holding people accountable are mutually exclusive. Humiliation and dehumanizing are not accountability or social justice tools, they're emotional off-loading at best, emotional self-indulgence at worst. And if our faith asks us to find the face of God in everyone we meet, that should include the politicians, media, and strangers on Twitter with whom we most violently disagree. When we desecrate their divinity, we desecrate our own, and we betray our faith.

And if our faith asks us to find the face of God in everyone we meet, that should include the politicians, media, and strangers on Twitter with whom we most violently disagree. When we desecrate their divinity, we desecrate our own, and we betray our faith.

Our faith narratives must be protected, and we must remember that no person is ordained to judge our divinity or to write the story of our spiritual worthiness.

God lives within us, not above us. Sharing our gifts and talents with the world is the most powerful source of connection with God.

Like our lovability and divinity, we must care for and nurture the stories we tell ourselves about our creativity and ability. Just because we didn't measure up to some standard of achievement doesn't mean that we don't possess gifts and talents that only we can bring to the world. Just because someone failed to see the value in what we can create or achieve doesn't change its worth or ours.

Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to one another by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power

Now this creative power I think is the Holy Ghost. My theology may not be very accurate, but that is how I think of it. I know that William Blake called this creative power the Imagination, and he said it was God.

All that we have and are is one of the unique and never-to-be-repeated ways God has chosen to express himself in space and time.

The universe is a machine for the making of Gods.