Quotes about Divinity

To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.

Every time we say we believe in the Holy Spirit, we mean we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it.

Every time you look in the mirror remember that God created you and that everything He creates is beautiful and good!

People who are religious should be glad, since not everyone is blessed with the ability to believe in a higher order.

The difference between you and God is that God doesn't think He's you.

I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.

What's the difference between you and God? God never thinks he's you.

When humans experience something as powerful as a forest or a rainbow, it is not crazy to assign its existence to a Greater Intelligence.

What a paradox: that we connect with God, with divinity, in our flesh and blood and time and space. We connect with God in our humanity. A great truth, attributed to Emily Dickinson, is that "hope inspires the good to reveal itself." This is almost all I ever need to remember. Gravity and sadness yank us down, and hope gives us a nudge to help one another get back up or to sit with the fallen on the ground, in the abyss, in solidarity.

I mean "God" as shorthand for the Good, for the animating energy of love; for Life, for the light that radiates from within people and from above; in the energies of nature, even in our rough, messy selves.

When Sam was six or so, he explained to me why we call God God: Because when you see something so great, you just go, 'God!

We religious types, even those who detest organized religion, pray for deeper faith and a greater sense of oneness with God.