Quotes About Divinity

Joy is God's basic character. Joy is his eternal destiny. God is the happiest being in the universe.

The entire sum of Creation, each private and individual act of nature, is God waving hello.

God's great, holy joke about the messiah complex is this: Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from it—except one. And he was the Messiah.

Jesus has made God's presence scandalously available to anyone who wants it.

No one can see God's face" (see Exodus 33:20). What do they mean when they say that no one can see God's face? They mean that we cannot see God as he is. We are not capable of this. We inevitably project our own fallenness onto God.

But of that day and hour no one knows neither the angels in heaven nor the Son but only the Father.' We are not to think that the Son of God as he is God did not know the day or hour but only that his human nature did not know it because his divine nature had not chosen to reveal it to his human nature.

Think greatly of the greatness of God.

But they seemed to be moving lights, moving in some complex pattern that defied explanation. The image was there for only a moment but it seared itself on his soul. He knew, in his heart, that they were not just stars, not burning bits of gas, but souls, entities. Perhaps even fuzzy children's toys, waving a farewell salute. He felt, in that brief instant, that he truly knew what it meant to touch the face of God.

It's because I remind them they're not God," I said. "And that if there is one, I'm closer to Him than they are.

If God or gods existed, and this was all they put together for eternal life, I wasn't very impressed with their user experience.

You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.

He had said, I am a man, and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and halfgod

He's eating God the way a bear eats meat against the winter.

There was the hills, an' there was me, an' we wasn't separate no more. We was one thing. An' that one thing was holy.

Well, maybe, like Casy says, a fella ain't got a soul of his own, but on'y a piece of a big one- an' then- Then what, Tom? Then it don' matter. Then I'll be all aroun' in the dark. I'll be ever'where- wherever you look. p419

Sometimes I'd pray like I always done. On'y I couldn' figure what I was prayin' to or for. There was the hills, an' there was me, an' we wasn't separate no more. We was one thing. An' that one thing was holy.

Jesus Christ is the Messiah.

Jesus Christ is the wisdom of God.

The marvelous Maker!

Praise be to God that hope is much more than how we feel on a given day. It exists outside of us

I couldn't imagine my life without getting to know God. He knows me, He created me. He should be known.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

The great act of faith is when a man decides that he is not God.

Religious faith indeed relates to that which is above us but it must arise from that which is within us.