Quotes about Divinity

All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. And creation gets all its meaning and purpose from God.

We are more than a collection of appetites - we are of God.

Jesus - "the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily" (Colossians 2:9).

Being infinite, God is inexhaustibly interesting. It is therefore impossible that God be boring.

God's glory consists much in the fact that He is happy beyond all our imagination.

Christmas means: the infinitely self-sufficient God has come not to be assisted but to be enjoyed.

The root meaning of the Old Testament word for holiness is the idea of being separate—different and separated from the ordinary. And when applied to God, this separateness implies that he is in a class by himself. He is like a one-of-a-kind diamond, supremely valuable. We can use the word transcendent for this kind of divine separateness. He is so uniquely separate that he transcends all other reality. He is above it and more valuable than all of it.

So God's eternity is not a distinct good; but is the duration of good. His immutability is still the same good, with a negation of change. So that, as I said, the fullness of the Godhead is the fullness of his understanding, consisting in his knowledge; and the fullness of his will consisting in his virtue and happiness.

Therefore, the reason God seeks our praise is not because He won't be complete until He gets it. He is seeking our praise because we won't be complete until we give it. This is not arrogance. It is love.

Absolute perfection belongs not to man, nor to angels, but to God alone.

Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God.

That we might become acquainted with His divine character and life, Christ took our nature and dwelt among us. Divinity was revealed in humanity; the invisible glory in the visible human form. Men could learn of the unknown through the known; heavenly things were revealed through the earthly; God was made manifest in the likeness of men.