Quotes About Divinity

For God, who is in heaven, is in man. Where else can heaven be, if not in man? As we need it, it must be within us. Therefore it knows our prayer even before we have uttered it, for it is closer to our hearts than to our words. — Opus paramirum , I:ix

The saints are in heaven, not in wood. — De morbis ex incantationibus et impressionibus

The wave is the same as the ocean, though it is not the whole ocean. So each wave of creation is a part of the eternal Ocean of Spirit. The Ocean can exist without the waves, but the waves cannot exist without the Ocean.

I know why men lose sight of the face of God: because it is so close.

The God I know is the source of reality, rather than morality; the source of 'what is' rather than the source of 'what ought to be'.

the exclusive imagining of God as male has deeply wounded women. Our immersion in these images convinced us that we are excluded from the divine, that we are inferior to men, that we are in need of a male savior, and that to name and imagine God in any other way than he has always been known is blasphemy.

Our search for a God who looks like us begins in our own lives. She will be found there.

One sees in God only what one worships.

It seems at times that strife can no more be separated from monotheism than stripes from a tiger.

Gods of my fathers," Deoch said reverently. "Keep her always so: unchanging, past my understanding, and safe from harm.

Todo vuelve a las cenizas, así que esta carne también arderá. Pero yo soy Tehlu. Hijo de mí mismo. Padre de mí mismo. Yo estaba antes, y estaré después. Si soy un sacrificio, lo soy únicamente a mí mismo. Y si alguien me necesita y me invoca de la forma correcta, volveré para juzgar y castigar.

He was in very truth his own God, and a more splendid God than the God that stank of incense and was quartered in churches.

God stank. God was a poor little stinker.

But perhaps we ask too much of him. Perhaps he really was only a god.

me guess. Now you quote from the bible and try to convert me to your religion." "The Creator of all doesn't get as hung up on religion as some people do," said Mathew.

Los ateos, por lo general, lo son por razones mezquinas —aseveró Voss—. La más mezquina de todas ellas estriba en su propia falta de grandeza espiritual, que les impide concebir la idea de un Poder Divino. Al

To be an artist is to enter into competition with god.

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God. The guy who built the Tower of Babel was the first artist. If I had to check out where I was in other centuries, I was his old lady. If I wasn't the guy, I was his chick. He knew that there was more and God got jealous. Even gods get uptight. Women make gods uptight. Everyone thinks of God as a man -- you can't help it -- Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man. But a man comes once. A woman never stops coming.

Christ died for somebody's sins / But not mine,

if God was a woman, she wouldn't have screwed things up this badly.

There is really nothing to be achieved here; only something to be accepted-the fact of your own divinity.

The divinity is there, within you; have faith that it is so and entrust yourself to it.

How can he have fears for his future who knows that he is related to God, and that God is the same yesterday, and today, and forever?

Believe implicitly that the divinity is within you, a knowing divinity, and--if you will harmonize yourself with it intuitively--a guiding divinity. As a Far Eastern poet has put it: "Your rice has been cooked from the very beginning.