Quotes about Divinity
everything that is good is God; whatever goodness we experience in this life is truly a taste of God, for it is God.
— Julian of Norwich
the goodness that each thing hath, it is He.
— Julian of Norwich
Jesus died crying out to God 'My God, why hast thou forsaken me?' All Christian theology and all Christian life is basically an answer to the question which Jesus asked as he died.
— Jurgen Moltmann
A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.
— NT Wright
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
This is the God of the gospel of grace. A God who, out of love for us, sent the only Son He ever had wrapped in our skin. He learned how to walk, stumbled and fell, cried for His milk, sweated blood in the night, was lashed with a whip and showered with spit, was fixed to a cross, and died whispering forgiveness on us all.
— Brennan Manning
All that we have and are is one of the unique and never-to-be-repeated ways God has chosen to express himself in space and time.
— Brennan Manning
What I created today was a god, but it was not You. Forgive this sin of mine, I pray.
— Brennan Manning
We might be competent in many subjects, but we cannot become an expert in the things of God. God is greater than our minds and cannot be caught within the boundaries of our finite concepts. Thus, spiritual formation leads not to a proud understanding of divinity, but to docta ignorantia, an "articulate not-knowing.
— Henri Nouwen
Our salvation comes from something small, tender, and vulnerable, something hardly noticeable. The Lord, who is the creator of the universe, comes to us in smallness, weakness, and hiddenness.
— Henri Nouwen
The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.
— Henry David Thoreau
Let them wander and scrutinize the outlandish Australians. I have more of God, they more of the road.
— Henry David Thoreau