Quotes About Divinity

The gods are what has failed to become of us

Great little One! whose all-embracing birth Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.

Only in souls the Christ is brought to birth, And there He lives and dies.

There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.

Being disguised under the disfigurement of an ugly crucifixion and death, the Christ upon the cross is paradoxically the clearest revelation of who God is.

There is no surer proof of Christ's divinity than that he is still so hated some two thousand years after his death.

Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?

In all religions, we make a choice about what we emphasize, and I choose to come down on the side of a loving God.

There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou - Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.

There is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.

We have not, it seems, the power to abstain from worship. Instead, we swallow the sweet poison, substituting lesser gods for God.

La idea central en la mayor parte del Antiguo Testamento podría ser llamada «la idea de la soledad de Dios». — G. K. Chesterton

Earth is crammed with heaven And every bush aflame with God But only those who see take off their shoes. —ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

Ya era gran cosa que el hombre hubiera sido hecho antes como Dios, pero que Dios se hiciera como el hombre, fue mucho más. —John Donne, Holy Sonnet 15 [Soneto Santo 15]

But what if I create a universe that is free, free even of me? What if I veil My Divinity so that the creatures are free to pursue their individual lives without being overwhelmed by My overpowering Presence? Will the creatures love Me? Can I be loved by creatures whom I have not programmed to adore me forever? Can love arise out of freedom? My angels love me unceasingly, but they can see Me at all times. What if I create beings in My own image as a Creator, beings who are free? But

Jesús de los Evangelios, un puente entre los seres humanos comunes y corrientes y el Dios perfecto.

I cannot catch courage from his smile. I have to do this all entirely alone, with thousands of strangers watching my every movement. Nothing is to detract from my rise from gentry woman to Queen of England, from mortal to a being divine: next to God. When they crown me and anoint me with the holy oil, I become a new being, one above mortals, only one step below angels, beloved, and the elect of heaven.

I believe there is a creator, a great creator of the world, but I do not know his name. I know the names that he is given by man. Why should I prefer one name to another? What I want to know is

we ourselves will be transubstantiated, we shall be angels

I was connected to God like that, and because he was there, I was connected to the whole of his creation.

Az ember az Å' számára a világ szeretetét jelentette, és itt zárul le a megszentelés köre.

He was a wise man who invented God.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

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