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Quotes About Divinity

This is what God did in the Incarnation. Being became a being, the Subject became an object, God became a man, I AM became a He.
~ Peter Kreeft
Here God is not approached as an object that we must love, but as a mystery present in the very act of love itself.
~ Peter Rollins
We are all sleeping avatars of God, with amnesia.
~ Philip K. Dick
Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.
~ Philip K. Dick
We human beings are created and yet we are more rational than the creator himself who spawned us.
~ Philip K. Dick
Yaldaboath is a monster spawned by Sophia who fell from the Pleroma," Fat said. "He imagines he's the only god but he's wrong. There's something the matter with him; he can't see. He creates our world but because he's blind he botches the job. The real God sees down from far above and in his pity sets to work to save us. Fragments of light from the Pleroma are—
~ Philip K. Dick
What you teach is the word of man. Man is holy, and the true god, the living god, is man himself. You will have no gods but yourselves; the days in which you believed in other gods end now, they end forever.
~ Philip K. Dick
The gentle sounds of the choir singing "Amen, amen" are not to calm the congregation but to pacify the god.
~ Philip K. Dick
I don't believe in God," Kevin said. "I believe in the Great Punta. And the ways of the Great Punta are mysterious. No one knows why he does what he does, or doesn't do." "Are you kidding me?" "No," Kevin said. "Where did the Great Punta come from?" "Only the Great Punta knows.
~ Philip K. Dick
Well, where is God," said Mrs. Coulter, "if he's alive? And why doesn't he speak anymore? At the beginning of the world, God walked in the Garden and spoke with Adam and Eve. Then he began to withdraw, and he forbade Moses to look at his face. Later, in the time of Daniel, he was aged—he was the Ancient of Days. Where is he now?
~ Philip Pullman
Everybody knows what God is,' said his mother. 'You feel what God is, don't you?
~ David Guterson
The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more
~ David Herbert Lawrence
Since there is no one like God, therefore all people should fear Him—in other words, dread His power and be devoted to His person.
~ David Jeremiah
It reminds us of a statement attributed to Voltaire: "God created man in His own image, and man has been trying to return the favor ever since.
~ David Jeremiah
love is more powerful than hatred; truth sets us free; forgiveness liberates both sides; unconditional love heals; courage empowers; and the essence of Divinity/Reality is peace.
~ David R. Hawkins
In truth, what you actually are is God's Love Manifested into being. That's all this God is looking to receive from you, your love given freely from your own heart and in doing so, in that act of freely giving back your love, you come to know who you are.
~ Unknown
There are many gods. There is one god. There is no god. Gods are merciful. Gods are cruel. Gods are indifferent. Their indifference is merciful. Their indifference is cruel. Their indifference is absolute.
~ Unknown
communion with God in the middle of bags of flour
~ Yann Martel
Por qué iba a someterse Dios a algo así? ¿Por qué no dejar la muerte para los mortales? ¿Por qué tuvo que ensuciar lo que era bello, estropear la perfección? -Por amor...
~ Yann Martel
Ich hatte nicht viel Ahnung von [der christlichen] Religion. Es gab kaum Götter, und sie galt als gewalttätig. Allerdings hatte sie gute Schulen.
~ Unknown
She couldn't make him look just like any other man to her. He looked like the love thoughts of women. He could be a bee to a blossom – a pear tree blossom in the spring. He seemed to be crushing scent out of the world with his footsteps. Crushing aromatic herbs with every step he took. Spices hung above him. He was a glance from God.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Mystery is the essence of divinity
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
She knew things that nobody had ever told her... She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pastor of ether. She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one every sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making.
~ Zora Neale Hurston