Quotes about Divinity

God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing.

Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.

Christ has taken our nature into heaven to represent us, and has left us on earth with his nature to represent him.

God without Christ is no God.

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.