Quotes about Divinity

Ultimately the only way that I can be myself is to become identified with Him in Whom is hidden the reason and fulfillment of my existence.

God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of Himself.

The pale flowers of the dogwood outside this window are saints. The little yellow flowers that nobody notices on the edge of that road are saints looking up into the face of God.

I think poets owe a special adoration to the third person of the Holy Trinity, for by these tongues of fire all men are made poets and philosophers, and that is the way Christ would have it on earth.

It is true that God knows Himself in all the things that exist. He sees them, and it is because He sees them that they exist. It is because He loves them that they are good. His love in them is their intrinsic goodness. The value He sees in them is their value. In so far as He sees and loves them, all things reflect Him.

humble realization of our mysterious being as persons in whom God dwells, with infinite sweetness and inalienable power.

Man is the image of God, and his inner self is a kind of mirror in which God not only sees Himself, but reveals Himself to the "mirror" in which He is reflected.

They knew a good building would praise God better than a bad one, even if the bad one were covered all over with official symbols of praise.

I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

The son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are irresistibly attracted to him. I would feel like to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force