497 Quotes About Divinity

Well, we come here to the Fastnesses mostly to learn what questions not to ask.""But you're the Answerers!""You don't see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice Foretelling?""No––""To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.

Thi Erfarenhed viser, at, naar een først haver bragt sig udi Reputation, helst blant dumme og vankundige Folk, kand han siden ikke alleene binde dem paa Ærmerne hvad han vil, men end og forfremme sin Lærdom ved de selsommeste og uriimeligste Fictioner; efterdi Menneskerne ofte holde det for en Merite at troe hvad som strider mod Fornuften, anseende simpel og klar Lærdom som menneskelig, men uforstaaelig som guddommelig.

The wind breezed through the neighborhoods and pushed the hands of household clocks. Waves rose and fell with the regularity of a sleeping god's snores. People cupped snowflakes in their hands, scraps of divinity that melted at the human touch, as ephemeral as time. Seasons are only man-made time-traps after all. We can call them what we please.

Wisdom is the knowledge of the gospel truth.

I love you is biblical.

Divinity is great enough to be divine; it is great enough to call itself divine. But as humanity grows greater, it grows less and less likely to do so. God is God, as the Moslems say; but a great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it. That is the paradox; everything that is merely approaching to that point is merely receding from it.

Each of us is a kaaranakartha...a conduit, a catalyst, an instrument…and so we only have one role...to be better instruments for divinity to work through us! And we can do that by working humbly, meaningfully, on whatever gives us unadulterated joy and by sharing all that we receive, thereby helping people around us to grow.

We are the new and improved Christians, those who actually understand Christianity. It has nothing to do with worshipping the Son of God, and everything to do with becoming God. Christianity is about making yourself Christ.

God is not an Almighty Being watching over life on earth. God is the Event Horizon of Human Consciousness.