Quotes about Divinity

God doesn't change, but God—being God—is never fully captured by our perceptions. As people continue to live and breathe and experience life, how they see God changes too.

I have found that the prompts to adjusting my understanding of God are all around me—literally. The very heavens are shouting them, and the word they are shouting most clearly is "mystery.

Rather, it was written to tell the Israelites that their God, and not the gods of the other nations, was the chaos tamer, and therefore, this God and this God alone was worthy of worship. And they made this point in ancient terms, using ancient ways of thinking.

Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.

When Jacob woke up, he thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it.”

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

You are not to make any gods alongside Me; you are not to make for yourselves gods of silver or gold.

But He added, “You cannot see My face, for no one can see Me and live.”

He made two cherubim of hammered gold at the ends of the mercy seat,

Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.

God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?

For what nation is great enough to have a god as near to them as the LORD our God is to us whenever we call on Him?