Quotes about Divinity

Pure morality points you to the purest One of all; and the purer your habits, the closer to God you will come.

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees takes off his shoes; The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.1 So said the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Those who smirk at His walking on water have forgotten the miracle He has already performed in the very composition of water.

The message of Christ was not the introduction of a religion, but an introduction to truth about reality as God alone knows it.

That is a greeting which says that the god that is in you recognizes the god in the other. These people are aware of the divine presence in all things.

My definition of mythology is "other people's religion," which suggests that ours must be something else. My definition of religion, then, is "misunderstood mythology"—and the misunderstanding consists in mistaking the symbol for the reference.

The more we descend into the interworkings of the cell or ascend to the depths of the universe, the more we can see the fingerprint of God.

would take more than a Jesus to invent a Jesus.5

In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.

All of these imitators imitated Jesus for one reason: because he was God made man.

With God there is no potential for fraud, deception, contamination, or disaster.