Quotes About Divinity

Parecíamos dioses en el alba del mundo y nuestro gozo era tan deslumbrante que no éramos capaces de ver otra cosa que el uno al otro.

There is no law that gods must be fair,

Lassù le costellazioni ruotano e tramontano. La mia natura divina sfolgora in me come gli ultimi raggi di sole prima di tuffarsi nel mare. Un tempo pensavo che gli dèi fossero opposti alla morte, ma adesso vedo che sono più morti che altro, poiché sono immutabili, e non possono trattenere nulla nelle mani. Per tutta la vita mi sono sempre spinta avanti, e adesso eccomi qui.

I had seen him in such moods. Every petty defect of the world enraged him, all the waste and stupidity and slowness of men, and all the irritants of nature too, biting flies and warping wood and the briars that ripped his cloak. When he had lived with me, I'd smoothed all those things away, wrapping him in my magic and divinity. Perhaps it was why he had been so happy. An idyll, I had called our time. Illusion might have been a better word.

We were all there, goddess and mortal and the boy who was both.

And we remembered, too, which god he served. The divinity of light and medicine and plague. Achilles slipped out of the tent when the moon was high. He came back some time later, smelling of the sea. "What does she say?" I asked, sitting up in bed. "She says we are right.

No logré darle la divinidad —dice Tetis con voz quebrada y llena de pesar. —Pero le diste la vida.

And she wished him to be a god. She had spoken it so simply, as if it were obvious. A god. I could not imagine him so. Gods were cold and distant, far off as the moon, nothing like his bright eyes, the warm mischief of his smiles.

It is strange to think of a goddess needing friends.

Teti: "Non sono riuscita a far di lui un dio" Patroclo: "Ma hai fatto lui

That men worshipped him like a god, but no one mourned.

Nothing you say can fuck up the space for God.

How could all the shreds of blue garbage bags stuck in brambles, or the bright blue tarps flapping over every shanty and fish stand in the world be, in essence, the fingerprints of god? I will try to explain this.

It lies out of the realm of time, space, and causation, and out of the boundaries of the ever-changing phenomenal field of creation. It is, It was, It will be, in the status of Its absolute purity. It always has the status which knows no change, the status of eternal life.

If God were corporeal, He would consist of atoms, and would not be one; or He would be comparable to other beings: but a comparison implies the existence of similar and of dissimilar elements, and God would thus not be one. A corporeal God would be finite, and an external power would be required to define those limits.

Although Jesus Christ was Himself the Creative Deity, by whom all things were made, as man He humbled Himself--set aside His divine prerogatives and walked this earth as man -- a perfect demonstration of what God intended man to be--the whole personality yielded to and occupied by God for Himself.

As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; as God alone, he would not; Incarnate, he could and did.

The point is, could God pass an examination in Theology?

Christentum entspringt aus der Begegnung mit einem konkreten Menschen: Jesus.

Alles, was wir mit Recht von Gott erwarten, erbitten dürfen, ist in Jesus Christus zu finden.

Der Grund aus dem wir als wirkliche Menschen leben dürfen und den wirklichen Menschen neben uns lieben dürfen, liegt allein in der Menschwerdung Gottes, in der unergründlichen Liebe Gottes zum Menschen.

Wo anders sollen wir die Gnade suchen für alle Untreue, allen Kleinglauben, alles Versagen als in der Niedrigkeit Gottes in der Krippe?

Christsein Christsein heißt nicht in einer bestimmten Weise religiös sein, auf Grund irgendeiner Methodik etwas aus sich machen (einen Sünder, Büßer oder einen Heiligen), sondern es heißt Menschsein, nicht einen Menschentypus, sondern den Menschen schafft Christus in uns.

Wenn Gott die Welt, die ganze abgefallene Kreatur geliebt hat, dann hat er uns keinen Vorzug vor anderen gegeben. Er hat meinen schlimmsten Feind nicht weniger geliebt als mich.