Quotes About Divinity

We must withdraw, then, from all things, for when God works, he works without an image.

We should not content ourselves with a God of thoughts for, when the thoughts come to an end, so too shall God. Rather, we should have a living God who is beyond the thoughts of all people and all creatures. That kind of God will not leave us, unless we ourselves choose to turn away from him.

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

If you wish to know God, you should not only be like the Son, but you should be the Son himself.

And St. Paul knew this well when he said, "For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate

St. John says, ". . . the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." (1:5) and "he came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. . ." (1:11-12)

God did nothing more than this: he willed it, he spoke it, and it was.

Thus the word "I" means the purity of God's essence, as he is in himself, and is free and bare of any additional essences which are foreign to him, for they are created.

Que proveito tenho eu se o nascimento eterno do filho divino ocorre sem cessar, mas não ocorre dentro de mim? Que proveito obtenho eu do fato de Deus dar à luz o seu filho, se eu não o trago à luz em minha época, e em minha cultura?

The gods whispered to you once, Finnikin. And you listened. But they are proud and refuse to speak to those who do not believe that there is something out there mightier than the minds and intellect of mortals.

The overt sexual nature of the Goddess, juxtaposed to Her sacred divinity, so confused one scholar that he finally settled for the perplexing title, the Virgin-Harlot.

God is the supreme uncreated light of which Wisdom is born, but there was never a time when God's Wisdom did not exist.

A nossa vida é feita de esperas. E, afinal, basta uma palavra, uma só palavra para sermos deuses, isentos de esperas.

The central theological principle of the Bible [is] the rejection of idolatry.

he was/is God in the same way that they themselves were God, with the difference between themselves and the emperor lying in the degree of inspiration by, or in the dwelling of, the Holy Spirit.

Haile Selassie I." One said that when he used the term, he literally meant "the power of the holy trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Rastafari is the spirit of light; that I'm in the light of God.

God is not one Fire, but every single flame of hope, of forgiveness, of effort to do good, anywhere, eternally.

God prefers a good atheist to a wicked believer.

No woman who had been intimate with a god was easily disturbed.

Theophilos, the light of reason that we both reverence is not a god. Neither does the highest development of the human mind confer divinity upon us. We may quote Aristotle one moment and in the next find ourselves betraying our wives and children—for the sake of passion, in the name of love—and not know how we arrived at that lamentable state. Reason is a gift of God but of itself cannot ennoble a man.

is possible that man can devise new forms of violation. But the essential sin remains more or less the same. Each of us, including the best of men, is tempted to make himself into God.

Why do you think there are no gods on Mount Olympus now? They killed themselves, that's why. They were terminally bored.

Each of us is a "cell" of the Absolute Mind. If we can expand our minds, we can tune into Absolute Mind, the Mind of God. We ourselves, if we can harness Absolute Mind, can become God.