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Quotes About Divinity

Man invented the gods. Then the gods went off on their own, but not far.
~ Mason Cooley
Was Christ a man like us?-Ah! let us try If we then, too, can be such men as he!
~ Matthew Arnold
Superman when he goes after someone is essentially not trying to beat them, he is trying to save them from themselves... You're looking at a God who walks amongst men!
~ Max Landis
God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.
~ Max Lerner
Man is a thief, an impudent thief! He steals honey from bees, eggs from chickens, milk from cows and life from the God!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Nature is the line; those who are under it, we call them as man; above it, we call them as God!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man is nothing, absolutely nothing till he achieves physical immortality. God should be prosecuted on the charges of making man mortal!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams and smoke.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Jesus Chris was more than man.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Because Man is God, and God is Man, the world is nothing but the world of Man - or Woman.
~ Paul Virilio
Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.
~ Paulo Coelho
The divine injunction to be perfect, even as He is perfect, was not given man to mock him. The possibility of our waking in His likeness is literally true.
~ Orison Swett Marden
For Zen, man is the goal; man is the end unto himself. God is not something above humanity, God is something hidden within humanity. Man is carrying God in himself as a potentiality.
~ Rajneesh
I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.
~ Ralph Abernathy
The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the gods come among men, they are not known.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I see one dilemma with Western man, it's that he can't accept how beautiful he is. He can't accept that he is pure light, that he's pure love, that he's pure consciousness, that he's divine.
~ Ram Dass
Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.
~ Robert A. Burton
The eternal Son of God became the sinless son of Man that the sinful sons of men might become the beloved sons of God.
~ Robert Clarke