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Quotes About Divinity

Why would anyone want to be God? he asked. It's a terrible occupation.
~ Jane Yolen
Why is this important? Because it means the division between God and man has been abolished.
~ Janette Oke
Unlike many deities of the ancient Near East, the God of Israel shared his power with no female divinity, nor was he the divine husband or lover of any.
~ Elaine Pagels
Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which case he was never alive, it being unlikely that he died of old age.
~ John Ralston Saul
We humans are here because nothing can be perfect. There always have to be some living things that are unsatisfied, itchy, trying too hard. If it was all just animals and rocks and lettuce, the gods wouldn't feel like they had enough to do.
~ Miranda July
The unseen world is what emanates from God.
~ Christopher Koch
I think that all the powerful religions are pretty much the same. People like to pretend they are very different, but they are not. They are really about believing in something bigger than yourself, something that's unseen, and about having some faith.
~ Zal Batmanglij
You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings.
~ Nicolas Malebranche
I wasn't really too hyped on religion. I don't really believe in a religion like that. I just believe that there is a God. There's just somebody up there that listens to me, and they can show me better if I talk to them and build a relationship with them.
~ NLE Choppa
The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.
~ Annie Besant
Too fair to worship too divine to love.
~ Henry Hart Milman
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
~ Francis of Assisi
God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
~ William Blake
From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.
~ Robert Boyle
If you believe in God, work with Him. If you do not, become one.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
If God had not made Sherry, how imperfect his work would have been.
~ Benito Perez Galdos
Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer, he becomes a divine man.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.
~ Sean O'Casey
We are on earth as extensions of God to finish the work He began. We are the essence of God, His on-going incarnation in the world.
~ Earl Paulk
God never made his work for man to mend.
~ John Dryden
In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies.
~ Martin Luther
Have you ever thought that the only ugl things in this Cove are man's fault, while the beautiful things are God's work? Look at those mountains.
~ Catherine Marshall
If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
~ Henry Miller