Quotes about Divinity

Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. —PHILIPPIANS 2:6

In his incarnate life, when he becomes one with us, Jesus recapitulates, or relives, Israel's (our) history. He becomes one of us. In fact, he becomes all of us in one divine-human being. Jesus is all Adam and Eve were designed to be, and more; he loves the Father absolutely and he loves himself absolutely and he loves others absolutely and he loves the world absolutely. He is the Oneness Story in one person.

So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is. Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.

After all, it is hard to think of a more important, or fundamental, mystery than what, or who, created and controls the universe.

To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.

Jesus Christ, in His infinite love, has become what we are, in order that He may make us entirely what He is.

We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.

Because of his boundless love, Jesus became what we are that he might make us to be what he is.

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.

God is never angry for His sake, only for ours.

God is great and so he planted seeds of greatness in you. God is good so there is goodness in you. God is love so there is love within you.