Quotes about Divinity

Love has the mind of a sage, the heart of a saint, and the soul of an angel.

When we forget that, we unwittingly reduce God's ways to our ways and God's thoughts to our thoughts. Our hearts become factories of idols in which we fashion and refashion God to fit our needs and desires.

God never retires his image bearers.

Created in the awesome image of God, men and women know that life has a meaning beyond 'eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.'

Living the holy life, transcending time and space, you are revered by both men and gods.

Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of a changeable, irritable, and, occasionally, violent man?

Our happiness consists in sharing the happiness of God, the perfection of His unlimited freedom, the perfection of His love.

If we enter into ourselves, find our true self, and then pass beyond the inner I, we sail forth into the immense darkness in which we confront the I AM of the Almighty.

For the contemplative there is no cogito ("I think") and no ergo ("therefore") but only SUM, I AM. Not in the sense of a futile assertion of our individuality as ultimately real, but in the humble realization of our mysterious being as persons in whom God dwells, with infinite sweetness and inalienable power.

What we venerate in the Saints, beyond and above all that we know is this secret; the mystery of an innocence and of an identity perfectly hidden in God.

God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of Himself. A word will never be able to comprehend the voice that utters it. But

Why did Christ become Man if not to save men by uniting them mystically with God through His own Sacred Humanity?