Quotes About Divinity

Flowers may beckon towards us, but they speak toward heaven and God.

It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive.

Everyone is in a small way the image of God.

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork.

In the faces of men and women I see God and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is signed by God's name, and I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoever I go others will punctually come for ever and ever.

The glory of God is in man fully alive.

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

I believe there is no god but Allah alone and Muhammed is his prophet.

"What do you think of God," the teacher asked. After a pause, the young pupil replied, "He's not a think, he's a feel."

God, to be God, must transcend what is. He must be the maker of what ought to be.

God is what man finds that is divine in himself. God is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.

To think you are separate from God is to remain separate from your own being.

Oh, if everyone knew how beautiful Jesus is, how amiable He is! Fhey would all die from love.

Deep down in every man, woman and child, is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there. For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself.

No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it, too, is a kind of divinity.

Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn-the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.

People see God every day, they just don't recognize Him.

It's compassion that makes gods of us.

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.

Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.

Beyond being Jewish, I've always found myself to be very much in tune with spirituality.

If there is a God, I want to see Him, not only His energy or His light, but Him.

The two things we all want so desperately — glory and relationship — can coexist only with God.