Quotes about Divinity

Our best feelings, which God himself has planted in our hearts, instinctively revolt against the thought that a God of infinite love and justice should create millions of immortal beings in his own image—probably more than half of the human race—in order to hurry them from the womb to the tomb, and from the tomb to everlasting doom!

God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.

We often forget that everything we see, animate or inanimate, is a visual manifestation of the work of our invisible God. We have become so accustomed to trees, mountains, sky, air, water, flowers, animals, vegetables and people that we no longer see them for what they are - God's work.

Every volcano is a powerful illustration of God's character. He is a Vesuvius of goodness, life, and energy.

Those who know, not only that the Everlasting lives in them, but that what they, and all things, really are is the Everlasting, dwell in the groves of the wish-fulfilling trees, drink the brew of immortality, and listen everywhere to the unheard music of eternal concord. These are the immortals.

God is within you! You yourself are the creator. If you find that place within you from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.

We are all reflexes of the image of the Bodhisattva. The sufferer within us is that divine being.

For then alone do we know God truly," writes Saint Thomas Aquinas, "when we believe that He is far above all that man can possibly think of God."[33] And

All the gods, all the heavens, all the worlds, are within us.

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.