Quotes about Divinity
But the Only Begotten is Himself made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and was numbered among us, and paid tribute unto Caesar.
— St. Augustine
And I knew not God to be a Spirit, not one who hath parts extended in length and breadth, or whose being was bulk; for every bulk is less in a part than in the whole: and if it be infinite, it must be less in such part as is defined by a certain space, than in its infinitude; and so is not wholly every where, as Spirit, as God. And what that should be in us, by which we were like to God, and might be rightly said to be after the image of God, I was altogether ignorant.
— St. Augustine
For the true God is not a soul, but the maker and author of the soul.
— St. Augustine
We worship God,—not heaven and earth, of which two parts this world consists, nor the soul or souls diffused through all living things,—but God who made heaven and earth, and all things which are in them; who made every soul, whatever be the nature of its life, whether it have life without sensation and reason, or life with sensation, or life with both sensation and reason.
— St. Augustine
We are He, since we are His body and since He was made man in order to be our Head.
— St. Augustine
He who disdained not to assume us unto Himself, did not disdain to take our place and speak our words, in order that we might speak His words.
— St. Augustine
Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery; it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
Every day He humbles Himself just as He did when from from His heavenly throne into the Virgin's womb; every day He comes to us and lets us see Him in lowliness, when He descends from the bosom of the Father into the hands of the priest at the altar.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
I believe we shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavouring to know God, for, beholding His greatness we are struck by our own baseness, His purity shows our foulness, and by meditating on His humility we find how very far we are from being humble. 11.
— Teresa of Avila
This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist
— Pope John Paul II
His words are the essence of truth...Jesus never uttered opinions. He never guessed; He knew, and He knows.
— AW Tozer
God is Light, not darkness. God is Love, not hate. God is truth, not untruth. God alone is great.
— Mahatma Gandhi