Quotes About Divinity

Religion as a historical human practice was therefore not of divine origin, and its developments and activities had to be of an entirely human origin.

Jesus, the fullness of God and man, is the full perfection of humanity, and he calls us to a humanity that is full and alive, without flaw or fault.

The Greek god Dionysus was a man-god said to be the "Son of Zeus." He was killed, buried, descended into hell, and rose from the dead to sit at the right hand of the father. His empty tomb at Delphi was long preserved and venerated by believers.

Buddha had said: Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.

At this gathering [Council of Niceau in 324 AD] many aspects of Christianity were debated and voted upon ? the date of Easter, the role of the bishops, the administration of sacraments, and, of course, the divinity of Jesus... until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed by His followers as a mortal prophet... a great and powerful man, but a man nonetheless. A mortal.

The laws of physics is the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece

We are creators , and yet we naively play the role of the created . We see ourselves as helpless sheep buffeted around by the God who made us. We kneel like frightened children, begging for help, for forgiveness, for good luck. But once we realize that we are truly created in the Creator's image, we will start to understand that we, too, must be Creators. When we understand this fact, the doors will burst wide open for human potential.

God is not some omnipotent authority looking down from above, threatening to throw us into a pit of fire if we disobey. God is the energy that flows through the synapses of our nervous system and the chambers of our hearts! God is in all things!

Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom. - Buddha

We all benefit from a sense of contact with divinity… even if it is only imagined.

Show me proof there is a God, you say. I say use your telescope to look to the heavens, and tell me how there could not be a God!

That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.

Each of us is a God, Buddha had said. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom. It

IN THE BEGINNING, MAN CREATED GOD.

Gods have no gender.

RELIGION CANNOT CLAIM MORALITY AS ITS OWN … I AM A GOOD PERSON BECAUSE I AM A GOOD PERSON! GOD HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT!

That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.' 

It was all about power,' Teabing continued. 'Christ as Messiah was critical to the functioning of Church and state. Many scholars claim that the early Church literally stole Jesus from His original followers, hijacking His human message, shrouding it in an impenetrable cloak of divinity, and using it to expand their own power. I've written several books on the topic.

From out of the brain flowed a stream of religious images—God reaching out to infuse Adam with life, Prometheus crafting a primordial human out of mud, Brahma creating humans from different parts of his own body, an African god parting the clouds and lowering two humans to earth, a Norse god fashioning a man and a woman out of driftwood.

Dios no es una autoridad omnipotente que observa desde arriba, amenazando con arrojarnos en un pozo de fuego si desobedecemos. ¡Dios es la energía que fluye por la sinapsis de nuestro sistema nervioso y las cavidades de nuestros corazones! ¡Dios está en todas las cosas!

If the laws of physics are so powerful that they can create life…who created the laws?!

Mr. Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories . . . legends and history of man's quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in God. When you lie out under the stars, do you sense the divine? Do you feel in your gut that you are staring up at the work of God's hand?

Those who erase God…must be gods.

From my perspective, however, there has never been an intellectual advancement that has not included God.