Quotes About Divinity

God's way of being alive is distinguishable from other forms of life. Plants, animals, and humans enjoy life at different scales of consciousness, movement, and self-determination. But in all plants, animals, and humans, bodily life ends in death. From the moment of conception, the processes of decay and death are at work in our bodies. Not so in God's life. God's life is eternally alive. God's life is not only without end but without beginning.

Just as God stepped out of his nature to become a partaker of our humanity, so we are called to step out of our nature to become partakers of his divinity" (Hilary of Arles, Intro. Comm. on 2 Pet. 1.4).

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

The whole universe is but a huge Symbol of god".

Man is without Duty round him; except it be "to make the Constitution." He is without Heaven above him, or Hell beneath him; he has no God in the world.

Polemical divinity," says he to Dr. Moore in 1787, "about this time was putting the country half mad; and I, ambitious of shining in conversation-parties on Sundays, at funerals, etc., used to puzzle Calvinism with so much heat and indiscretion, that I raised a hue-and-cry of heresy against me, which has not ceased to this hour.

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

Time past, present, and to come, as also depth and height, near and afar off, are all one in God, one comprehensibility.

Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.

Throughout history, men have made many things to contain God: churches, temples, denominations, ceremonies. All of these have mixed motives and chequered histories. God doesn't 'need' any of these things, but it is in humanity's nature to keep building houses, and it is in God's nature to keep turning up.

There's no match for the silence of GOD.

The truth is that we all are one, that all of us together create god, that god is not man's ancestor, but his descendant.

Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us.

Was this man the Messiah whom God had promised him or wasn't he? All the miracles he performed could also be performed by Satan, who could even resurrect the dead. The miracles therefore did not give the rabbi sufficient basis to pass judgment; nor did the prophecies. Satan was a sly and exceedingly powerful archangel. In order to deceive mankind he was capable of making his words and actions fit the holy prophecies to perfection.

Dios es un incendio, hermano León. Arde. Y nosotros ardemos con Él.

Nu-i r?spundeam; ascultându-l pe Zorbas, simÈ›eam c? lumea îÈ™i recap?t? fericirea în fiecare clip?. Lucruri de zi cu zi, p?lite de mult, îÈ›i rec?p?tau str?lucirea pe care o avuseser? la început, când ieÈ™ir? din mâinile Domnului. Apa, femeia, pâinea reveneau la izvorul primordial, tainic, È™i roata divin? prindea din nou avânt în slava cerului.

He did not die. The only ones who die are those who are too late to become immortal. He was not too late. God granted him time.

eli, eli, lema sabachtani

Tanr? bir uçurumdur.

If He (God) is invisible, how does He know what He looks like?' The Torah tells us He has made man in His own image, after His likeness, and therefore He does but glance at you, my son, and sees Himself.

God is in each of us. But we must give Him permission to come out.

Dr. Francis Collins, was impressed with the moral argument on his way back to God. He later wrote, "After twenty–eight years as a believer, the Moral Law still stands out for me as the strongest signpost to God. More than that, it points to a God who cares about human beings, and a God who is infinitely good and holy.

It is precisely because He is omnipotent that for Him some things are impossible.