Quotes About Divinity

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.

Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

By a show of hands, Kirsch continued, how many of you believe in any of the following ancient gods: Apollo? Zeus? Vulcan? He paused, and then laughed. Not a single one of you? Okay, so it appears we are all atheists with respect to those gods. He paused. I simply choose to go one god further.

The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece." Vittoria

Decimos que Dios nos creó a su imagen, pero no es nuestro cuerpo físico lo que se parece a Dios, sino nuestra mente.

The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees; Hazel seeds into hazel trees; And God seeds into God. —Meister Eckehart

God is the creature, not the creator.

I learned that poets aren't God, but if there is a God … or anything approaching a God … he's a poet. And a failed one at that.

To be a true poet is to become God.

It is at times like this that I have the sense… the slightest sense… of what a sacrifice it must have been for the Son of God to condescend to become the Son of Man.

We were gods then. But even gods must descend from their high thrones upon occasion.

Humans have been waiting for Jesus and Yahweh and E.T. to save their asses since before they covered those asses with bearskins and came out of the cave," she said.

If there is a god [...] he's a poet. And a failed one at that.

Sure we are all made by some secret Power, who formed the earth and sea, the air and sky. 

Jesus, thou son of David!

The theory called Euhemerism argued that all gods may have originally been only human rulers elevated to divinity by later generations for their benefits to mankind.

They are moved less by the direct presence of their gods than by the more indirect feeling that they would somehow like their gods to be present.

there is no stain, no purification, no divinity outside the Self; no practice, no ritual, and nothing separate from ourselves to attain. Consciousness is totality; totality is consciousness.

The current controversy over God's sex doesn't strike anyone as being the least bit primitive. If God is going to be like us, then there must be sexual equipment of one kind or the other, even though it presumably doesn't get much use.

No god craves weaklings.

God can be heard in the jingle of a spur, the thunder of hooves, and the bawl of a newborn calf.

I believe in one power, and that is the hand of God. I respect all religions.

One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.

The Atonement of Christ is the most transcendental event that has ever occurred or that will ever occur, since the sunrise of creation to all ages of eternity