Quotes About Divinity

Let us perform all our actions with the thought that God dwells in us. We shall thus be His temples, and He Himself will be our God, dwelling in us (cf. Eph. 15: 3).

And it is evident that it is not less repugnant that falsity or imperfection, in so far as it is imperfection, should proceed from God, than that truth or perfection should proceed from nothing.

Lorsque nous trouvons la figure de la croix dans les phénomènes astronomiques ou autres, elle a exactement la même valeur symbolique que celle que nous pouvons tracer nous-mêmes [3] ; cela prouve seulement que le véritable symbolisme, loin d'être inventé artificiellement par l'homme, se trouve dans la nature même, ou, pour mieux dire, que la nature tout entière n'est qu'un symbole des réalités transcendantes.

Being human is a portal into your divinity."

God has a name. This points to a key difference between persons and things. God is not a nameless energy or abstract idea. — Thomas Oden

If we are to believe in gods at all, we must believe them to be wiser and better than men.

What separates man from divine Reality is the slightest of barriers: God is infinitely close to man, but man is infinitely far from God. The barrier is, for man, a mountain; he stands before a mountain which he must remove with his own hands. He digs away the earth, but in vain; the mountain remains. Man, however, goes on digging, in the name of God. And the mountain vanishes. It was never there.

You will reach a point where you know with certainty that you are in the realm of divinity, or for those who prefer to use the word "God," in the presence of God. To be in the presence of God or the realm of divinity is to be beyond the mind.

And while reason may be found within His love, no reason would be able to contain his love. […] It is possible that the evidence of His divinity lies in that love – that in light of love, miracles seem sort of unremarkable. If God can love me, the rest will follow.

I looked at the world as God did when first He made it. I saw that it was good.

Truth is the reality we see when all the illusions and delusions of sin are dispelled by the word of God. To get past all the seductive images of the good life that contemporary society constructs for us with such consummate expertise, to see beyond them to the real truth of things, is liberation ... Truth is personal, and what liberates is the encounter with the reality of things in the person of Jesus who reflects his Father's divinity and models true humanity.

Divinity students always fought in these peaked caps, as a scar would terminate their careers.

The conscious water saw its God, and blushed.

Great little One! whose all-embracing birth Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.

A pillow for thee will I bring, Stuffed with down of angel's wing.

An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or Baal or the golden calf. We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

Their books weren't ink marks on paper but God himself compressed between covers. No wonder they often ended up fighting with each other over who had the best words and the best symbols for God.

All things came from Me and all things will return to Me. Split the timber and there I Am. Lift a stone and you will discover Me there.

They spoke, at length, about the realms "above" this one. Levels at which the progressing soul becomes at one with God—formless, independent of time and substance though still aware of personal identity.

The gardener sees only the gardener's garden. The eyes were not made for such grovelling uses as they are now put to and worn out by, but to behold beauty now invisible. MAY WE NOT SEE GOD?

all growing things alone disclose the wordless mind of God.

Whatever good, true, or perfect things we can say about humanity or creation, we can say of God exponentially. God is the beauty of creation and humanity multiplied to the infinite power.

God for us, God alongside us, God within us.

And we must—absolutely must—maintain a fundamental humility before the Great Mystery. If we do not, religion always worships itself and its formulations and never God.