Quotes about Divinity

When we deny the spiritual dimension to our existence, we end up living like animals. And when we deny the physical, sexual dimension to our existence, we end up living like angels. And both ways are destructive, because God made us human.

But in the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, this stunning truth is revealed: God is not on the side of the

If Creation were a crime, would not God be the prime suspect?

The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?

he world looks like something God had just imagined for His own pleasure. This isn't poetry but it makes me feel the same way as poetry does.

But, Felix, you may be sure that God is infinitely more beautiful and loving and tender and kind than anything we can imagine of Him. Never believe anything else, my boy.

A world without time would be a world without God, a world existing in and by itself, without renewal, without a Creator.

Just as the Shechinah is in exile, so is the Torah in exile.

The plea is not to obey what He wills but to do what He is.

Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.

But the false serpent persuaded Adam that he must still do something to become like God: he must achieve that likeness by deciding and acting for himself...He wanted instead to unravel the mystery of his being for himself, to make himself what God had already made him. That was the Fall of man.

And that is the wonder of all wonders, that God loves the lowly…. God is not ashamed of the lowliness of human beings. God marches right in. He chooses people as his instruments and performs his wonders where one would least expect them. God is near to lowliness; he loves the lost, the neglected, the unseemly, the excluded, the weak and broken.