Quotes About Divinity

Buddha had said: "Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.

Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.

In search of wealth in this world, Thou art the only wealth I have found; I sacrifice myself unto Thee. In search of some one to be loved, Thou art the only one beloved I have found; I sacrifice myself unto Thee.

Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this Divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal.

Oh, if only you knew yourselves! You are souls; you are Gods. If ever I feel like blaspheming, it; is when I call you man.

He (God) reveals himself to the pure heart.

if a temple, or a symbol, or an image helps you to realise the Divinity within, you are welcome to it. Have two hundred images if you like. If certain forms and formularies help you to realise the Divine, God speed you; have, by all means, whatever forms, and whatever temples, and whatever ceremonies you want to bring you nearer to God. But do not quarrel about them; the moment you quarrel, you are not going Godward, you are going backward, towards the brutes.

Yoga is the science which teaches us how to get these perceptions [direct experiences of God].

But why should the soul take to itself a body? For the same reason that I take a looking-glass — to see myself. Thus, in the body, the soul is reflected. The soul is God, and every human being has a perfect divinity within himself, and each one must show his divinity sooner or later. If I am in a dark room, no amount of protestation will make it any brighter — I must light a match.

The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls out the divinity within. You can do anything. You fail only when you do not strive sufficiently to manifest infinite power. As soon as a man or a nation loses faith, death comes.

I remember, as a boy, hearing a Christian missionary preach to crowd in India. Among other sweet things he was telling them was, that if he gave a blow to their idol with his stick. what could it do? One of his hearers sharply answered, "If I abuse your God, what can He do?" "You would be punished," said the preacher, "when you die." "So my idol will punish you when you die," retorted the Hindu.

You've said that even if God existed you could not know the mind of God, for that would be a sacrilege from any religious perspective. Divinity is divinity only to the extent that it exceeds the bounds of human understanding, you said. That was one of the statements that made me think of accosting you here. Well, perhaps, happiness is like that too: we cannot really understand the happiness of other people. Or their sorrow.

There was something in the Savior's descent that made possible man's ascent.

Heaven doesn't laugh. It just smiles and stares.

All of us have the gifts we need to reflect the image of God, each in our own unique way. The very fact that we have arrived here, in human incarnation, tells us that we have the courage to take on the task. Although

Only when we have a grasp on the meaning of Divinity and Divine purpose can we possibly understand what we are here for.

It is, in effect, as though we forget who and what we most truly are, and thus must labor to remember ourselves and reintegrate ourselves to the state of the person of light who is united with divine being in the light-continuum.

The nature of one's own consciousness is the same as the nature of God and Godhead and, therefore, to know God, one must seek to know oneself.

Grecia dio a conocer al hombre que sin Dios no era nada, daba lo mismo que fuera un labrador o un dictador sobre un trono esmaltado. Porque como dijo Epicteto: Adonde quiera que vaya, encontrare el sol, la luna y las estrellas, encontrare sueños y presagios y conversaré con Dios

If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

He loved Him with an utterness beyond what humans can experience for one another. To say it was unconditional was inadequate, because even the word "unconditional" required the concept of a condition and such an idea was no longer comprehensible to him: every phenomenon in the universe was nothing less than an explicit reason to love Him. No circumstance could be an obstacle or even an irrelevancy, but only another reason to be grateful, a further inducement to love.

By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, when in fact we live steeped in its burning layers

Christ is in all, meaning that the divine spark is in all things.

God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh.