Quotes about Divinity
...in the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power.
- Nikolai Berdyaev
Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God
- Cicero
God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.
- Timothy Keller
Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.
- Peter Kreeft
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
- Peter Kreeft
Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.
- Stanley Hauerwas
Therefore Lord God, you are more truly omnipotent, because you have no power through impotence and nothing can be against you.
- Anselm of Canterbury
Just as a circle embraces all that is within it, so does the God-head embrace all. No one has the power to divide this circle, to surpass it, or to limit it.
- Hildegard of Bingen
To see what God is like, we must look at Jesus. He perfectly represents God to men in a form which they can see and know and understand.
- William Barclay