Quotes About Divinity

We know him [God] by two means: First, by the creation, preservation, and government of the universe, since that universe is before our eyes like a beautiful book in which all creatures, great and small, are as letters to make us ponder the invisible things of God: his eternal power and his divinity, as the apostle Paul says in Romans 1:20.[28]

And is it true? And is it true, This most tremendous tale of all… That God was Man in Palestine And lives today in Bread and Wine.   (John Betjeman, Christman)

Conversely, every act done without thought for myself diminishes my self-centeredness until finally no barrier remains to separate me from the Divine.

Why is God called "the Place" (hamaqom)? Because the universe is located in Him, not He in the universe.

I am a god. I don't do fair.

Did you ever think that your body is holy? You are a child of God. Your body is His creation.

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

I believe and have always believed in the Holy Trinity.

I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church.

Here is where our real selfhood is rooted, in the divine spark or seed, in the image of God imprinted on the human soul. The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.

Our outward appearance is a reflection of what we are on the inside. Our lives reflect that for which we seek. And if with all our hearts we truly seek to know the Savior and to be more like Him, we shall be, for He is our divine, eternal Brother.

Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.

God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known.

What's the point of God making us human if He doesn't want us to act like we're human?' 'To see if we can rise above our natures,'Megan said.

God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.

Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is heavy and make himself light--I call it a divine capacity for lightness.

Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.

There's only one God. Call him whatever you want

Spirituality is ultimate greed. You don't just want a piece of creation - you want the source of creation.

God left so many fingerprints at the scene of Creation that you wonder — does He want to be found, or does He want to be stopped?

We never want Him. We say, "Lord, give me a fine house." We want the house, not Him. "Give me health! Save me from this difficulty!" When a man wants nothing but Him, [he gets Him].

There were no ugly gods. Their first expression of power was in the reshaping of their selves, into forms lovely to behold.

My faith in the gods is this: they are indifferent to my suffering.

He sensed wry amusement in Hood. ' One day, even the gods will answer to death.