Quotes About Divinity

Alles Sehen und Erkennen der Dinge und Gesetze ohne Gott wird zur Abstraktion, zur Loslösung vom Ursprung und vom Ziel.

Wir müssen uns klar werden, wie wir angesichts der Krippe im Stall von Bethlehem künftighin über hoch und niedrig im menschlichen Leben denken wollen.

Aus Liebe zum Menschen wird Gott Mensch.

Gott will nicht, daß ich den Andern nach dem Bilde forme, das mir gut erscheint, also nach meinem eigenen Bilde, sondern in seiner Freiheit von mir hat Gott den Andern zu seinem Ebenbild gemacht.

Dogs have something of us in them. Something of God.

The way of heaven can be known and experienced through the heart.

It is not by destroying the lower nature that man becomes virtuous; it is by the transmutation and regeneration of every base quality and attitude that he achieves divinity.

Every truly intelligent man and woman who is working to spread light in the world is christened, or Lightened, by the actual labor which he or she is seeking to perform. The fact that light (intelligence) partakes of the natures of both God and the earth is proved by the names given to the personifications of this light for at one time they are called the "Sons of Men' and at another time the "Sons of God.

The Stoics were essentially pantheists, since they maintained that as there is nothing better than the world, the world is God.

When the human race learns to read the language of symbolism, a great veil will fall from the eyes of men. They shall then know truth and, more than that, they shall realize that from the beginning truth has been in the world unrecognized, save by a small but gradually increasing number appointed by the Lords of the Dawn as ministers to the needs of human creatures struggling co regain their consciousness of divinity.

Pythagoras said that the universal Creator had formed two things in His own image: The first was the cosmic system with its myriads of suns, moons, and planets; the second was man, in whose nature the entire universe existed in miniature.

The zero card–Le Mat, the Fool–has been likened to the material universe because the mortal sphere is the world of unreality. The lower universe, like the mortal body of man, is but a garment, a motley costume, well likened to cap and bells. Beneath the garments of the fool is the divine substance, however, of which the jester is but a shadow; this world is a Mardi Gras–a pageantry of divine sparks masked in the garb of fools.

What earth is this so in want of you they rise up on high to seek you in heaven? Look at them staring at you right before their eyes, unseeing, unseeing, blind.

Ana el haq! Io sono la verità!

Sacred chemistry is a meta-chemistry.

The whole art of living is to regard people who cause us suffering as, in a degree, enabling us to accept its divine form and thus to populate our daily life with divinities.

No man [...] can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free, being the image and resemblance of God himself.

He also went invisible, yet stayed (such privilege hath omnipresence).

In goodness and in power pre-eminent. Tell me how may I know him, how adore,? From whom I have that thus I move and live, And feel that I am happier than I know.

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God. Nevermore, however weary, should one faint by the way who gains the blessings of one mountain day; whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

This is the alpenglow, the most impressive of all the terrestrial manifestations of God.

One of John's favorite quotes was from Meister Eckhart: Nothing in the universe resembles God more than silence.

It is lovely to imagine that real divinity is the presence in which all beauty, unity, creativity, darkness, and negativity are harmonized.

The imagination is committed to the justice of wholeness. It will not choose one side in an inner conflict and repress or banish the other; it will endeavor to initiate a profound conversation between them in order that something original can be born. The imagination loves symbol because it recognizes that inner divinity can only find expression in symbolic form. The symbol never gives itself completely to the light. It invites thought precisely because it resides at the threshold of darkness.