Quotes about Divinity

But there was a special reason for mentioning His "side" here—see John 19:34: through His pierced side a way was opened to His heart, the seat of the affections! In John we see Him as the Son of God, and God is love.

Immutability and impeccability (non-liability to sin) are qualities which essentially distinguish the Creator from the creature.

The God of Scripture is no make-believe monarch, no mere imaginary sovereign, but King of kings, and Lord of lords.

Well did the Puritan Sibbes say, "God, to show His love to us, showed Himself God in this: that He could be God and go so low as to die" (Vol. 5, p. 327).

We cannot have a right conception of God unless we think of Him as all-powerful, as well as all-wise. He who cannot do what he will and perform all his pleasure cannot be God. As God hath a will to resolve what He deems good, so has He power to execute His will.

There, but for the grace of God, goes God.

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.

But God lasts when everything else is gone. What shall we do if he is not our friend?

Three words have often been used as the trumpet-call of men - the words God, Immortality, Duty - pronounced with terrible earnestness. How inconceivable was the first, how unbelievable was the second, and yet how peremptory and absolute the third.

This earth indeed is the very Body of God, and it is from this body that we are born, live, suffer, and resurrect to eternal life. Either all is God's Great Project, or we may rightly wonder whether anything is God's Great Project. One wonders if we humans will be the last to accept this.

Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them bright, precious and fair.