Quotes About Divinity

the one unmistakable, incontestable manifestation of the Divinity is the law of right and wrong, which has come into the world by revelation, and which I feel in myself,

Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

The physicists defer only to the mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God.

Remember when I moved in you and the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was, "Hallelujah.

Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of.

The artist is the closest man comes to being God.

Anyone who doesn't need company is either greater than a man, and is a God, or lesser than a man, and is a beast.17 —Aristotle, as quoted by Saint Thomas Aquinas

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

The trees are God's great alphabet: With them He writes in shining green Across the world His thoughts serene.

All ancient polytheisms revered one high god above all others.

There was no god but God. There could be no partners with God, no daughters or sons. God was neither begotten nor begetter. What indeed had

The finest achievements are those of the pen...to me God the Father is a writer.

Religion dictates, spirituality invites.

we really have no right to reproach God for having created the world. For Him it was the only possible way of escaping from the accursed void in which He found himself.

You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals.

It was easy when you were this angry, and this good, and God he was angry. And good.

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic -- on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg -- or else he would be the Devil of Hell.

Significantly, it was during the third dynasty of Ur-a period of viogorous constructive activity-that all the kings except the founder claimed divinity. This evidence decisively couples divine kingship with the characteristic public works program of the megamachine. Little tasks might still be left to little men, but big tasks belonged to the king by reason of the special powers he commanded: above all, the unique power to create a colossal labor machine.

Agamemnon reproached Clytemnestra for her servile effusiveness of speech: "As a man, not as a god, let me be honored." The delusion of divinity in a ruler was a product of their civic decadence.

You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.

There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.

If we do no mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?

If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.

My intellect was quickened at divinity school, and my abilities to discern were strengthened, and that's always valuable.