Quotes about Divinity

The very simple meaning of what Moses says, therefore, is this: everything that is, was created by God.

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

If we fail to hold that the Person who was crucified was both God and man, we are eternally damned and lost. We must have a Savior who is more than a saint or an angel. If He were not superior to these, we would get no help from Him. But if He is God, then the treasure is so heavy that it not only outweighs and cancels sin and death but also gives eternal life. No mere human could acquire eternal life for us or overcome the devil and death.

But there is no other mediator than the Lord Christ, who is the Son of God.

My temptations have been my masters in divinity.

I do not bother my head with speculations about the nature of God. I simply attach myself to the human Christ

God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.

For "no one has ascended into heaven but He who descended" (John 3:13), that is, no one arrives at the understanding of divinity but he who has first been humbled and who has come down to an understanding of himself, for there he discovers the understanding of God at the same time.

Our Lord God is an artist like unto none.

When we try to dictate to God the time, place, and manner for him to act, we are testing him. At the same time, we're trying to see if he is really there. When we do this we are putting limits on God and trying to make him do what we want. It's nothing less than trying to deprive God of his divinity. But we must realize that God is free—not subject to any limitations. He must dictate to us the place, manner, and time that he will act.

Beer is made by men, wine by God.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]