Quotes About Divinity

I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance.

In meditation, you are calm and receptive. You are like an open door providing a kind of cross ventilation so that the air of divinity can move through you.

A person is not religious solely when he worships a divinity, but when he puts all the resources of his mind, the complete submission of his will, and the whole-souled ardour of fanaticism at the service of a cause or an individual who becomes the goal and guide of his thoughts and actions.

No se trata de supersticiones de otra época definitivamente expulsadas por la razón. En su eterna lucha contra la razón, el sentimiento no ha sido jamás vencido. Las masas no quieren escuchar ya las palabras divinidad y religión que las han dominado durante tanto tiempo; pero ninguna época las ha visto elevar tantas estatuas y altares como desde hace un siglo.

Spirit is living, and Life is Spirit, and Life and Spirit produce all things, but they are essentially one and not two.

I am being killed by what keeps me from dying. And next the sea became very small no bigger than a bathtub. Rolling in pain crashed over and over again onto the edges of the world. Then a divinity fished her out.

And it is in his own image, let us remember, that Man creates God.

Monotheism is but imperialism in religion.

All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all. Cecil Frances Alexander 1818-1895

The worst thing that could possibly happen. Is recognizing we are all connected to each other by a power more greater than us.

But though there were different names for God in all the different languages in the world and God understood what all the people who prayed said in their different languages still God remained always the same God and God's real name was God.

God was God's name just as his name was Stephen. Dieu was the French for God and that was God's name too; and when anyone prayed to God and said Dieu then God knew at once that it was a French person that was praying. But though there were different names for God in all the different languages in the world and God understood what all the people who prayed said in their different languages still God remained always the same God and God's real name was God.

Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eon of the gods.

God and the Blessed Virgin were too far from him: God was too great and stern and the Blessed Virgin too pure and holy.

When all is said Dumas fils (or is it Dumas père?) is right. After God Shakespeare has created most.

The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

No, sir. Jesus wept: and no wonder, by Christ!

God and morality and religion come first.

God—the all-knowing, all-powerful, everywhere-present One—wants closeness with you and me!

No one is going to admit it to you, but we're all miracles out here, every last one of us.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Nuestra Señora del Mar de Oro

I marvel to think that the Son of God would condescend to save us, as imperfect, impure, mistake-prone, and ungrateful as we often are. I have tried to understand the Savior's Atonement with my finite mind, and the only explanation I can come up with is this: God loves us deeply, perfectly, and everlastingly.

Some unifying principles bind all Christians: that God became a man and died for our sins, and that without that sacrifice, all of us would be doomed.