Quotes and Sayings about Divinity
"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."
- Bruce Barton
(Related: Divinity, Expression, Living, Personality, Will, World)
"In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity."
- Anne Boyd
(Related: Divinity, Romantic)
"Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Christ, Divinity, Humanity)
"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."
- Samuel Butler
(Related: Power, Divinity, Healing)
"Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own."
- Alan Cohen
(Related: Divinity, Want, Worship)
"Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Nature, Being, Culture, Divinity, Grace, Humanism, Order)
"We believe in the dignity of every life, the possibility of every mind, the divinity of every soul. This is our true North."
- Elizabeth Dole
(Related: Life, Soul, Possibility, Dignity, Divinity, Mind)
"Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity."
- Charles Eastman
(Related: Men, God, Divinity, Sons)
"Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever."
- Khalil Gibran
(Related: Divinity, Footsteps, Humanity)
"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."
- Alexander Hamilton
(Related: Nature, Divinity, Rights, Human nature, Mankind, Old)
"It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?"
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: Divinity)
"A man's character is his guardian divinity."
- Heraclitus
(Related: Character, Divinity, Man)
"Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge."
- David Hume
(Related: Knowledge, Growth, Divinity, Learning)
"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."
- Washington Irving
(Related: Beauty, Intelligence, Talent, Divinity, Woman)
"The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French."
- Wilfrid Laurier
(Related: Divinity, English, Language)
"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."
- John Lennon
(Related: Love, Life, Peace, Soul, Answers, Divinity, Purity, Questions, Songs, Understanding)
"Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter."
- Charles Lindbergh
(Related: Life, Quality, Knowledge, Awareness, Divinity, Future, Past, Present)
"There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities."
- Herman Melville
(Related: Divinity)
"I'm working my way toward divinity."
- Bette Midler
(Related: Divinity)
"Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity."
- Novalis
(Related: Divinity, Nothing)
"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."
- Joyce Carol Oates
(Related: Accident, Divinity, Laws, Nothing, Physics, Universe)
"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."
- Leonard Orr
(Related: Being, Body, Divinity, Healing, Mind, Spirit)
"Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism."
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
(Related: Imagination, Character, Appearance, Divinity, Wit, Witty)
"It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts."
- Swami Sivananda
(Related: Thoughts, Divinity, Words)
"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."
- William Howard Taft
(Related: Christ, Divinity)
"I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose."
- William Temple
(Related: Enthusiasm, Purpose, Alchemy, Divinity, Philosophy, World)
"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."
- John Templeton
(Related: Day, Divinity, Open, Talk)
"It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity."
- John Templeton
(Related: Divinity, Self)
"The expression of divinity is in variety."
- Sheri S. Tepper
(Related: Divinity, Expression, Variety)
"Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand."
- Henry David Thoreau
(Related: Nature, Genius, Divinity)
"Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment."
- Morihei Ueshiba
(Related: Body, Divinity, Spirit)