Quotes about Divinity

This understanding of God provides the key to understanding what the Bible means when it declares that humans are made "in the image of God." The imago Dei means that humans, like God, are essentially beings who exist in relationship. We are created to exist in relationship with God and with each other. To the extent that we live in isolation from God and from each other, we are not fully human.

How do we reconcile the fact that Jesus was fully God with the fact that Jesus was fully human? It is an issue that has been discussed in Christian circles throughout the church's history. All Christians believe that Jesus was both fully God and fully man. This doctrinal belief was formalized with the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451 and became one of the central beliefs of Christianity.

The very fact that what God creates is less than Himself introduces limitations and imperfections into the picture.

Jesus is God's way of refusing to give up his dream for the world.

When we deny the spiritual dimension to our existence, we end up living like animals. And when we deny the physical, sexual dimension to our existence, we end up living like angels. And both ways are destructive, because God made us human.

But in the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, this stunning truth is revealed: God is not on the side of the

If Creation were a crime, would not God be the prime suspect?

The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?

he world looks like something God had just imagined for His own pleasure. This isn't poetry but it makes me feel the same way as poetry does.

But, Felix, you may be sure that God is infinitely more beautiful and loving and tender and kind than anything we can imagine of Him. Never believe anything else, my boy.

A world without time would be a world without God, a world existing in and by itself, without renewal, without a Creator.

Just as the Shechinah is in exile, so is the Torah in exile.