Quotes about Divinity
The divinity that shapes our ends is in ourselves. It is our very self…. All that a man achieves is the direct result of his own thoughts…. A man can only rise, conquer and achieve by lifting up his thoughts. He can only remain weak and abject and miserable by refusing to lift up his thoughts.
— Dale Carnegie
Love is not God, but God is love. It is who he is, his very identity.
— Dallas Willard
God's care for humanity was so great that he sent his unique Son among us, so that those who count on him might not lead a futile and failing existence, but have the undying life of God Himself. JOHN 3:16
— Dallas Willard
Our humanity will not by itself prevent us from knowing and interacting with God just as they did.
— Dallas Willard
A creature is not a creator, and cannot be. There is only one Creation, and we are its members.
— Wendell Berry
I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God.
— William Faulkner
God is foolish at times, but at least He's a gentleman. Dont you know that?" "I always thought of Him as a man," the woman said.
— William Faulkner
If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
— Henry Ward Beecher
All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.
— Henry Ward Beecher
God is like us to this extent, that whatever in us is good is like God.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Anyone who doesn't need company is either greater than a man, and is a God, or lesser than a man, and is a beast.17 —Aristotle, as quoted by Saint Thomas Aquinas
— Leonard Sweet