Quotes about Divinity

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.

The sum of all that lives is God.

God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.