Quotes About Divinity

All religions are not the same. All religions do not point to God. All religions do not say that all religions are the same. At the heart of every religion is an uncompromising commitment to a particular way of defining who God is or is not and accordingly, of defining life's purpose.

Pure morality points you to the purest One of all; and the purer your habits, the closer to God you will come.

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees takes off his shoes; The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.1 So said the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Sólo Jesús brilla como alguien sin mancha, no tocado por el pecado.

Those who smirk at His walking on water have forgotten the miracle He has already performed in the very composition of water.

the message of Christ was not the introduction of a religion, but an introduction to truth about reality as God alone knows it.

Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on unlimited or restricted canvases. These are the children of the gods.

The Official was bending over his desk, staring at the sergeant. May I ask you a question? Yes. Have you ever thought you were Christ? I can't say that I have. But I have considered that God was good to me to let me find what I was looking for, if that's what you mean.

Cómo? ¿Cómo se hizo todo esto? ¿Y por qué? ¿Con qué propósito? ¿Por la mera bondad de alguna intervención divina? ¿Entonces Dios se preocupa realmente por sus criaturas? ¿Cómo y por qué y para qué?

Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God. But only he who sees takes off his shoes. The rest sit round and pluck blackberries. 1806-1861 BRITISH POET

The metaphor is the mask of God through which eternity is to be experienced.

How interesting! In the older view the goddess Universe was alive, herself organically the Earth, the horizon, and the heavens.

That is a greeting which says that the god that is in you recognizes the god in the other. These people are aware of the divine presence in all things.

My definition of mythology is "other people's religion," which suggests that ours must be something else. My definition of religion, then, is "misunderstood mythology"—and the misunderstanding consists in mistaking the symbol for the reference.

it is not science that has diminished human beings or divorced us from divinity. On the contrary, the new discoveries of science "rejoin us to the ancients" by enabling us to recognize in this whole universe "a reflection magnified of our own most inward nature;

Todos los dioses, todos los cielos, todos los infiernos, están en ti.

The meaning of lovein harmonious human relations Sigmund Freud, the Austrian founder of psychoanalysis, said that unless the personality has love, it sickens and dies. Love includes understanding, good will, and respect for the divinity in the other person. The more love and good will you emanate and exude, the more comes back to you.

Nothing in this transitory world lasts eternally; however, the Truths of God last forever.

Cease believing in the false beliefs, opinions, superstitions, and fears of mankind. Begin to believe in the eternal verities and truths of life, which never change. Then, you will move onward, upward, and Godward.

Closer is He than breathing, nearer is He than hands than and feet." Realize that "With God all things are possible.

would take more than a Jesus to invent a Jesus.5

God is perfectly holy and without sin. And to be in relationship with sin would be in violation of his nature.

The bottom line is that God is holding everything together.

I thought you were the loveliest, most enchanting creature God ever created.