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Quotes About Divinity

Man is a greater miracle than any god he ever invented.
~ Rod Steiger
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
~ Seneca the Younger
In every good man a God doth dwell.
~ Seneca the Younger
Even to a wicked man a divinity gives wealth, Cyrnus, but to few men comes the gift of excellence.
~ Theognis of Megara
Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.
~ Thomas Merton
Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
~ Francis Bacon
The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
When a man turns his face to God he finds sunshine everywhere.
~ Abdu'l-Bahá
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
~ Alexander Pope
Christ was Begotten by an immortal Father in the same way that mortal men are begotten by mortal fathers.
~ Bruce R. McConkie
The man in Christ rose again, not only the God.
~ C. S. Lewis
Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and holy as God is holy.
~ Charles Kingsley
He is not humanity deified. He is not Godhead humanized. He is God. He is man. He is all that God is, and all that man is as God created Him.
~ Charles Spurgeon
The kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you!
~ Charlie Chaplin
The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
Gods should not resemble men in their anger!
~ Euripides
Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Seraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone!
~ Friedrich Schiller
Each man enters into God so much as God enters into him.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.
~ Henry David Thoreau
we shall advance more by contemplating the Divinity than by keeping our eyes fixed on ourselves
~ Teresa of Avila
How wonderful it is that He Whose greatness could fill a thousand worlds, and very many more, should confine Himself within so small a space, just as He was pleased to dwell within the womb of His most holy Mother!
~ Teresa of Avila
Ink on paper is as beautiful to me as flowers on the mountains; God composes, why shouldn't we?
~ Terri Guillemets