Quotes about Divinity

Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery; it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not.

This understanding of God provides the key to understanding what the Bible means when it declares that humans are made "in the image of God." The imago Dei means that humans, like God, are essentially beings who exist in relationship. We are created to exist in relationship with God and with each other. To the extent that we live in isolation from God and from each other, we are not fully human.

God gave us sleep to remind us we are not him.

He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.

Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery; it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not.

Since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior. He became like us, so we could become like Him.

Jesus bases everything on God-realization, while other teachers base everything on self-realization.

What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?

God's great, holy joke about the messiah complex is this: Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from it—except one. And he was the Messiah.

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.

Jesus is all we have; he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!