Quotes About Divinity

Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.

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 about him. He was a glance from God.

The one who makes the idols never worships them, however tenderly he might have molded the clay. You cannot have knowledge and worship at the same time. Mystery is the essence of divinity. Gods must keep their distances from men.

Crushing aromatic herbs with every step he took. Spices hung about him. He was a glance from God.

All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped.

They seemed to be staring at the dark but their eyes were watching God.

They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against crude walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.

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 about him. He was a glance from God. So

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 about him. He was a glance from God.

She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up.

Don't make God look so foolish, finding fault with everything he made.

Maybe nothin' ain't real sho' nuff. Maybe 'taint no world. No elements, no nothin'. Maybe wese jus' somewhere in God's mind. But when he wiggled his tired toes the world thudded and throbbed before him.

it is God without mankind

A grudging and infrequent worshipper of the gods.

Nor does Apollo always stretch the bow.

O nights and feasts of the gods!

I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one.

What separates us from God is our own sense of separateness.

Every religion began with revelations from God, and in time we have perverted these revelations. All of heaven is horrified by our use of the name of God to do harm to each other.

Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind.

The spirit of man communes with Heaven the omnipotence of Heaven resides in man. Is the distance between Heaven and man very great

The disciples of Jesus "found themselves thinking that if divine goodness were to manifest itself in human form, this (he) is how it would behave… he invited people to see differently instead of telling them what to do or believe…he located the authority of his teaching in his hearer's hearts, not in himself or God-as-removed.

When God became human, He made Himself into an image. By His own incarnation, He shattered the prohibition against art.

I've got a lot of ideas about God. I pray about as much as anybody, even though i am tough , yet I'm not too sure I liked God. It seems to me that is he is what they say he is, he has a very funny way of showing it.