Quotes About Divinity

If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.

If this is a straightforward historical account, God created evening, morning, and days without luminaries and then created luminaries in order to effect them.83 Are we really to conclude that the division occurs without the dividers? It seems reasonable to assume that the narrator has offered a dischronologized presentation of the events in order to emphasize a theological point. God is not dependent on the luminaries.

Do you remember, Abelard.… Once I told you that ecstasy was better than being God." "I remember." "I was wrong, darling. Being God is better.

Do you remember, Abelard... Once I told you that ecstasy was better than being God." "I remember." "I was wrong, darling. Being God is better.

We also use the name of Jesus in our prayers to acknowledge what he is doing now. Not only does Christ give us his holy status

The pure in heart, who fear to sin, The good, kindly in word and deed? These are the beings in the world Whose nature should be called divine.

The joy of creation does not fade, for in that lies our divinity and our claim to eternity.

How now! they shouted; Dar'st thou measure this our god! That's for us. Aye, priests—well, how long do ye make him, then?

When Angelo paints even God the Father in human form, mark what robustness is there. And whatever they may reveal of the divine love in the Son, the soft, curled, hermaphroditical Italian pictures, in which his idea has been most successfully embodied; these pictures, so destitute as they are of all brawniness, hint nothing of any power, but the mere negative, feminine one of submission and endurance, which on all hands it is conceded, form the peculiar practical virtues of his teachings.

your heart beat in my ribs and mine in yours, and both in God's

Queequeg no care what god made him shark,' said the savage, agonizingly lifting his hand up and down; wedder Fejee god or Nantucket god; but de god wat made shark must be one dam Ingin.

The weaver-god, he weaves; and by that weaving is deafened, that he hears no mortal voice; and by that humming, we, too, who look on the loom are deafened; and only when we escape it shall we hear the thousand voices that speak through it. 76

Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine – but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight

Immortals are never alien to one another.

Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.

They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize.

Ay, ay, cómo culpan los mortales a los dioses!, pues de nosotros, dicen, proceden los males. Pero también ellos por su estupidez soportan dolores más allá de lo que les corresponde.

He was the loveliest born of the race of mortals, and therefore the gods caught him away to themselves, to be Zeus' wine-pourer, for the sake of his beauty, so he might be among the immortals.

scattering medicines that still pain, healed him, since he was not made to be one of the mortals.

Now the gods were seated in assembly by Zeus

Beware, Diomedês! Forbear, Diomedês! Do not try to put yourself on a level with the gods; that is too high for a man's ambition. The immortal gods are one race, men that walk upon the earth are another.

All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.

He too,I think,should pray to the deathless ones himself. All men need the gods...

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