Quotes About Divinity

anything that we see in creation is due to reflected light. And all light comes from God.

I stepped back and looked at all the people as they continued to weave in and out, around and around, faster and faster until they were one blur, until they were One. And then I knew what Bubbe meant. Here, was God.

Jakie niebo? Jaki Bóg?! Ty nie widzisz, co si? dzieje? Ty nie widzisz, ?e Boga ju? dawno tu nie ma? A je?eli nawet jest – staruszek zni?y? g?os – to on jest po ich stronie.

Tap?naklar?n ihtiÅŸam? ve Tanr? tasvirlerinin sanat?, 'humus' tabakas?ndan yukar?ya besleyici bir g?da ta??yabilecek olan 'kökler' fikrine izin vermez. Bu g?da tam da binalar üzerine bina, tasvirler üzerine tasvir ederek çekildiÄŸi düÅŸünülen s?n?rlar?n d???nda b?rak?land?r.

everything in the so-called world of nature is meant to lead us back to God. In that sense, created matter is meant to serve eucharistically. By treating the world as a eucharistic offering in Christ, received from God and offered to him, we are drawn into God's presence.

Thus it seems that the Cross of Christ, laden with every sinful refusal of man, must stand at the very last extremity of hell; indeed, it must stand beyond hell, where the Son is forsaken by the Father in a way that only he can know.

God is not "Being" but beyond being, because being necessarily includes multiplicity.98 Yet this "many", as Maximus explains along with Pseudo-Dionysius, is always such only because of unity.

God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming.

The saint is the apology for the Christian religion. He is holy, however, because he allows Christ to live in him and it is in Christ that he "glories".

Our awareness of God starts where self-sufficiency ends.

This is what it means to be human "in the image of God." It means being free to make choices instead of doing whatever our instincts would tell us to do. It means knowing that some choices are good, and others are bad, and it is our job to know the difference.

God is a God I can believe in.

He invented mother's hearts--& he certainly has the pattern in his own.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

3. What is the purpose of our creation?

If you ask them: "Who created the heavens and Earth and made the Sun and Moon subservient?" They will say: "Allah." So how have they been deluded [away from the truth]? (Surat al-'Ankabut, 29:61)

What is rooted out in the quest of truth is ignorance; it is entirely removed from the heart, and the outlook becomes wide; as wide as the Eye of God; therein is born the divine Spirit, the spirit, which is called Divinity.

Then again it may be said, there is a purpose above each purpose, and there is again a purpose under each purpose; and yet beyond and beneath all purposes there is no purpose. The creation is, because it is.

If the rays are the souls of living beings, then the light of that same divine Sun is the spirit of the whole of nature. It is the same light; but not divided, not distinct, as are the rays which we call souls.

Die Sufis sagen, "die Kaaba, der heilige Ort, das Paradies ist das Herz des Menschen." Deswegen respektieren sie jedes Herz. Jedes Herz ist ihre Kaaba, ihr Heiligtum. Sie verbeugen sich vor dem Menschenherzen, denn in diesem Herzen lebt Gott. (S. 240)

Your words seem broken but they are new, as new as the God that made you you.

Cultures that develop around the notion of an authoritarian Father God inevitably oppress those who do not fit the image of the all-powerful, adult, human male: children, women, homosexuals, and the nonhuman communities of animal, plant, and mineral life with which we live and share the planet.

Where sanity is there God is.

Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.