Quotes About Divinity

Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.

A God who fits within the confines of our conception is useless. God cannot be comprehended by man's conception or logic. God is an eternal being who transcends the framework of man's limited logic.

We can have no conception of God higher than man, so our God is man, and man is God.

The Absolute is the material of both God and man.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

God made in the image of Man is an imperfect master.

Man Made 'God' in his own image. The eternal, the infinate, the unnameable was reduced to a mental idol that you had to believe in and worship as 'my god' or 'our god'.

For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us.

"Is God a Man or a Woman ?" The answer to this question is neither God is That. But if you must give God a gender, God is more female than male, for he is contained in She.

God sinks into dust before man.

There is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God.

Each man must have his own special route to lead him to God.

Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.

God is for men, and religion for women.

For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.

I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.

Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.

It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality.

What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.