Quotes About Divinity

The vision of Christ that thou dost seeIs my vision's greatest enemy.

Higher self now!" and "Spiritual essence now!

Only God, my dear,Could love you for yourself aloneAnd not your yellow hair.

Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil

Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God but to create Him.

The groves were God's first temples.

that) but because God thought the whole thing up first. Fran illustrates this with the Sistine Chapel in Rome, where Michelangelo portrays the creation of

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

Peccatum est deicidium—sin is deicide. As

The body of Our Saviour shat but Our Saviour shat not.

I cannot estimate how much this pleases me. I feel I have succeeded to the idleness of God.

What is a soul? I believe it is our connection with the Creator and our deep awareness of our connection with all things created by him.

I didn't believe in one god, I decided. I believed in many, all at war with one another, and lately it was the Tornado God who seemed to have the edge.

God's right here. In the dirt, the rain, the sky, the trees, the apples, the stars in the cottonwoods.

The origin of the Christian faith is therefore inexplicable unless Jesus really rose from the dead.

Left to himself, natural man would never come to God.

En lugar de simplemente gobernar la creación, Dios también se relaciona con ella íntimamente, sin oprimirla ni militarizarla, sin aplastar la libertad humana

The truth is that God is to be found in all things--even and most especially in the painful, tragic and unpleasant things.

Man, made after God's image, was a nobler creation than twinkling sparks in the sky, or than the larger and more useful lamp of the moon.

Some gods deserve atheists.

Hinduism is not about joining a church but about developing respect for all beings, not only humans but plants and animals as well. It is not about a particular holy book but about understanding our own minds and hearts. It is not about a savior but about discovering the Divine presence within us.

The Bible is not a book of science. The Bible is a book of redemption,

The Christian God is slow to anger and rich in mercy (see Exodus 34: 6, echoed in Joel 2: 13 and many other places in Scripture).

While he, the immortal One, would not be overcome by death, he would die for the eternal life of us mortals.