Quotes About Divinity

The vision of the gods without the power of the gods. What a terrible gift. A glorious gift.

The older you get, the more you believe in God, whatever face he wears.

God is his own best apologist.

As Origen stated in answer to Celsus long ago, the gospel is not a matter of natural religion. It is not about the ascent of man but about the descent of God.

God killed me, and only after He had made me into someone entirely different from the person I had been, did he call me back to life.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated His ability.

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

For Zen, man is the goal; man is the end unto himself. God is not something above humanity, God is something hidden within humanity. Man is carrying God in himself as a potentiality.

The secret of a holy life is not in imitating Jesus, but in letting the perfections of Jesus be manifested in our mortal flesh.

The transfiguration was completed on the Mount of Ascension. If Jesus had gone to heaven directly from the Mount of Transfiguration, He would have gone alone. He would have been nothing more to us than a glorious Figure. But He turned His back on the glory, and came down from the mountain to identify Himself with fallen humanity.

Sanctification is not something Jesus puts in me—it is Himself in me (see 1 Corinthians 1:30).

the miracle of the redemptive reality of God is that the worst and the vilest offender can never exhaust the depths of His love.

Jesus bases everything on God-realization, while other teachers base everything on self-realization.

Jesus doesn't bring anything up from the wells of human nature--He brings them down from above.

To say that God is infinite," wrote A. W. Tozer, "is to say that He is measureless."3

In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.

Only Diety Except ALLAH.

the heavens and the earth. In fact, that's the only big difference between Jesus

Beyond the gods, beyond all that falsifies and coarsens the world of holiness, beyond all lies and distortion, all twisted divinities and all the abortions of human imagination, there must be something stupendous which is inaccessible to us. Which, by our very failure to capture it, demonstrates how inaccessible it is. Beyond all the sacred clutter the holy thing must exist. That I believe, of that I am certain.

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

There is in each person, in every animal, bird and plant a star which mirrors, matches or is in some sense the same as a star in the heavens.