Quotes About Divinity

After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility? {Said in a letter to Voltaire }

Me parece imposible demostrar que somos la obra de un ser superior y no el pasatiempo de uno bastante defectuoso.

Art does not simply reveal God: it is one of the ways in which God reveals, and thus actualizes, himself.

God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away.

We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

The Logos was with (pros) God, and the Word was God (theos Ä"n ho logos). The Greek words express two ideas: the Word was deity, but the Word was not fully identical with deity. The definite article is used only with logos. If John had used the definite article also with theos, he would have said that all that God is, the Logos is: an exclusive identity. As it is, he says that all the Word is, God is; but he implies that God is more than the Word.

The text does not say that he emptied himself of the morph? theou or of equality with God. From other references we know that Paul regards Jesus incarnate as the embodiment of deity (Col. 1:19). All that the text states is that "he emptied himself by taking something else to himself, namely, the manner of being, the nature or form of a servant or slave."47 By becoming human, by entering on a path of humiliation that led to death, the divine Son of God emptied himself.

Thus more explicitly and more emphatically than the other New Testament writers does St. John declare the divinity of Jesus Christ as eternal Son of God and at the same time the distinction between the Son and the Father."46

There was a young fellow from Trinity Who took But the number of digits Gave him the fidgets; He dropped Math and took up Divinity.

Art must invent new beauty, not play with what has already been made, religion must invent God and never rest.

The false god punishes, the true god slays.)

Everything is full of gods

Everything is full of gods, cousin James once said, quoting somebody.

If you believe in God, then He exists.

Even the worm that crawls in the Earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter your God.

There is room in the human heart for all the divinities.

de una divinidad incluyente y maternal, conectada a la naturaleza, sinónimo de vida, un proceso eterno de renovación y evolución.

Me gusta la idea de una divinidad incluyente y maternal, conectada a la naturaleza, sinónimo de vida, un proceso eterno de renovación y evolución. Mi Diosa es un océano y nosotros somos gotas de agua, pero el océano existe por las gotas que lo forman

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

Jesus... was made a little lower than the angels.

If the life and death of Socrates were those of a sage, the life and death of Jesus were those of a God.

The soft whispers of the God in man.

It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed from all eternity than to conceive a Being beyond its limits capable of creating it.

God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality ....