Quotes about Divinity
Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God enters by a private door into every individual.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action he engages in reacts upon and illuminates the recesses of his own mind. Thus friends seem to be only mirrors to draw out and explain to us ourselves; and that which draws us nearer our fellow man, is, that the deep Heart in one, answers the deep Heart in another, -- that we find we have (a common Nature) -- one life which runs through all individuals, and which is indeed Divine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
and beauty and goodness comes to each man directly, in flashes of spiritual light
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jesus spoke of miracles because he saw all of life as miraculous. Miracles appear to us as the eyes of our hearts are opened, and we see clearly. But, as defined by the churches, a miracle is a monstrosity—something contrary to nature, rather than in harmony with it. Jesus respected Moses and the Hebrew prophets, but didn't limit himself to repeating their insights. He spoke from the heart, not from a book, and brought forth a new revelation: the divinity of the soul.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heartily know, when half-gods go, the gods arrive.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a crack in every thing God has made.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever is given to Christ is immediately touched with immortality.
- Randy Alcorn