Quotes about Divinity
It is true that God knows Himself in all the things that exist. He sees them, and it is because He sees them that they exist. It is because He loves them that they are good. His love in them is their intrinsic goodness. The value He sees in them is their value. In so far as He sees and loves them, all things reflect Him.
— Thomas Merton
humble realization of our mysterious being as persons in whom God dwells, with infinite sweetness and inalienable power.
— Thomas Merton
Man is the image of God, and his inner self is a kind of mirror in which God not only sees Himself, but reveals Himself to the "mirror" in which He is reflected.
— Thomas Merton
They knew a good building would praise God better than a bad one, even if the bad one were covered all over with official symbols of praise.
— Thomas Merton
I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate.
— Thomas Merton
It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.
— CS Lewis
The son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.
— CS Lewis
I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are irresistibly attracted to him. I would feel like to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force
— Carl Jung
Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
— George Bernard Shaw
We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now
— George Bernard Shaw
In the faces of men and women I see God and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is signed by God's name, and I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoever I go others will punctually come for ever and ever.
— Walt Whitman
It is my conviction that the root of evil is the want of a living God.
— Mahatma Gandhi