Divinity Quotes

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.

An Apostle is a missionary, bearing testimony of the reality and divinity of Jesus Christ in all the world.

My intellect was quickened at divinity school, and my abilities to discern were strengthened, and that’s always valuable.

Mine is just a simple old human story – of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.

Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be.

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.

Once the Republicans get rolling, they assume they’re going to win everything. They are zealots, and zealots assume the last five percent of whatever their plan is will be taken care of by their own greatness or momentum or divinity.

We think of divinity as something infinitely big, but it is also infinitely small – the condensation of your breath on your palms, the ridges in your fingertips, the warm space between your shoulder and the shoulder next to you.

Divinity is an emotion of being lifted out of yourself and being part of something much bigger than yourself that makes you go, ‘Oh my God.’ And that sense of awe? It’s the second rule of science.

I had been a journalist in Europe and then went to divinity school in the early 1990s, and came out as somebody who had the perspective of a journalist and was now also theologically educated.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.

If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.

Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows, and necessity is the resultant of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.

The True Self is not our creation, but God’s. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.

It’s self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.

I believe divinity is within us.

Nothing is accidental in the universe – this is one of my Laws of Physics – except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

There is one simple Divinity found in all things, one fecund Nature, preserving mother of the universe insofar as she diversely communicates herself, casts her light into diverse subjects, and assumes various names.

A Schubert song, the A-major chord at the opening of Wagner‘s ‘Lohengrin’ – such incredible beauty is a mystery, the divinity of music.

While some who downplay Christ’s divinity have imagined Jesus as a great social worker ‘being kind to old ladies, small dogs and little children,’ orthodox Christianity has not wanted Jesus to have a political message.

The Egyptians saw the sun and called him Ra, the Sun God. He rode across the sky in his chariot until it was time to sleep. Copernicus and Galileo proved otherwise, and poor Ra lost his divinity.

Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity.

A man‘s character is his guardian divinity.

I do have a tendency to want to go back to school at all times in my life. Maybe I’ll do the Ph.D. in art history when I’m 50, or maybe divinity school. I like teaching, too.

A physician‘s physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric’s divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

Unlike many deities of the ancient Near East, the God of Israel shared his power with no female divinity, nor was he the divine husband or lover of any.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

Why have I been chosen to deliver the message of female intelligence and its divinity to a deaf world of males? I have asked my god that question and She answered, ‘Hey, why not you Roseanne?’ Indeed, why not each of us?

It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of – another Jew?

I’m working my way toward divinity.

I just refer to myself as being Spirit, Mind and Body like everybody else and working toward the mastery of my natural divinity and the healing of my emotional mind.

I am more excited about ‘Divinity of Doubt: The God Question’ than any other book in my entire career, and I’ve had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.

What is the essence of theosophy? It is the fact that man, being himself divine, can know the divinity whose life he shares. As an inevitable corollary to this supreme truth comes the fact of the brotherhood of man.

A spiritual relationship to me is much more about making your own connection to the divinity that you believe in and much less about the person – the shepherd – who’s overseeing it all.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.