Quotes About Divinity

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

They say God has existed from the beginning of time and will exist beyond the end of time. Can you imagine trying to sit through his home movies?

The body of a young woman is God's greatest achievement. Of course He could have made it to last longer, but you can't have everything.

In the faces of men and women I see God.

Despise not yourselves, ye women; the Son of God was born of a woman.

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

In a cruel and imperfect world, she was living proof that God could still create perfection.

Without God at the core of your being, you will always fall short of your full potential.

I have found God to be everything He claims to be: Holy God, wholly good.

Dancers are the messengers of the gods.

Who you are is not your name or your family. Who you are is more essential than that; it comes from God. And what you make of yourself, that is what you give back to God.

All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him.

Creation happens to us, burns itself into us, recasts us in burning -- we tremble and are faint, we submit. We take part in creation, meet the Creator, reach out to Him, helpers and companions.

God can be addressed, but not expressed.

Of Enoch, who walked with Elohim, it is told that he had become one of the angels who was all eyes and wings. Thus is the poet. Everything in him perceives the things, and everything in him flies past the things. He is wholly in the one thing that he experiences, and yet is already and still in all the others at the same time.

For God does not want to be believed in, to be debated and defended by us, but simply to be realized through us.

There is an ancient belief that the gods love the obscure and hate the obvious. Without benefit of divinity, modern men of similar persuasion draft provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. Section 341 is their triumph.

If you don't know what's meant by God, watch a forsythia branch or a lettuce leaf sprout.

God in Christ has taken into Himself the brokenness of the human condition. Hence, human woundedness, brokenness, death itself are transformed from dead ends to doorways into Life. In the divinizing humanity of Christ, bruises become balm.

the more we realize we are one with God the more we become ourselves, just as we are, just as we were created to be.

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?

If we fail to hold that the Person who was crucified was both God and man, we are eternally damned and lost. We must have a Savior who is more than a saint or an angel. If He were not superior to these, we would get no help from Him. But if He is God, then the treasure is so heavy that it not only outweighs and cancels sin and death but also gives eternal life. No mere human could acquire eternal life for us or overcome the devil and death.

But there is no other mediator than the Lord Christ, who is the Son of God.