Divinity Quotations

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

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.

Individual potential of life is cosmic potential. Individual is divine deep inside. Transcendental experience awakens that divinity in man. And when you kill a man you deprive him of that birthright of it.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.

Within the walls of our own homes, we can and should bear pure testimony of the divinity and reality of the Father and the Son, of the great plan of happiness, and of the Restoration.

I had a place at university to study theology and philosophy. I got the divinity prize at my school two years in a row. Probably because there were only 10 of us, but still.

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.

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

Femininity is part of the God-given divinity within each of you. It is your incomparable power and influence to do good. You can, through your supernal gifts, bless the lives of children, women, and men. Be proud of your womanhood. Enhance it. Use it to serve others.

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.

Here is where our real selfhood is rooted, in the divine spark or seed, in the image of God imprinted on the human soul. 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.

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

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.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

What is divine? It is simply that which man has not been able to understand. Once you do, it loses its divinity.

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

Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

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

Just as Divinity descends in a certain manner, to the extent that one communicates with Nature, so one ascends to Divinity through Nature, just as by means of a life resplendent in natural things one rises to the life that presides over them.

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.

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.

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.

Since I move about with you, eat like you, and talk with you, you are deluded in the belief that this is but an instance of common humanity. Be warned against this mistake. I am also deluding you by My singing with you, talking with you, and engaging Myself  in activities with you. But, any movement, My Divinity may be revealed to you; you have to be ready, prepared for that moment.

Since Divinity is enveloped by humanness you must endeavor to overcome the Maya (delusion) that hides it from your eyes.

Magic is the divinity of man achieved in union with faith...

When we begin to experience our life as the miraculous expression of divinity - not occasionally, but all the time - then we will know the true meaning of success.

Everyone has a spark of divinity inside them. After all, we were created in the image of God.

Poverty is a form of hell caused by man's blindness to God's unlimited good for him. You should be prosperous, well supplied and have abundance of good because it is your divine heritage. Your creator wants you that way.

We can neither speak of superior nor inferior divinity, but only of divinity, because no divinity ever wished to be superior or inferior as true divinity is a part of man as the Man is a part of divinity and consequently, neither man nor divinity are alien to each other, but a family, a whole. This is why divinity cannot beat, nor torture. Divinity is neither hidden nor infamous as the man divinity deems to be like this, but only the emancipation and the destruction of the negative side of the individual divinity of the man, with which he contributed to the social divinity that was going in the wrong direction eventually lead to hiding the evil in man, so necessary otherwise in order to define and reference Good, but only for balancing Good and Evil and not for the balance to be overthrown by one of its elements.

I was enrolled in divinity school and thought I was going to become a minister - I'm Episcopalian - but I was disavowed of that notion pretty quickly while working at the hospital. I found myself really unfulfilled by the answers that are traditionally offered to questions of why some people suffer and why others suffer so little.

Our humanity were a poor thing were it not for the divinity which stirs within us

I think the Gore campaign has made an enormous issue of the fact that George is not smart, ... Did Al Gore graduate from law school, did Al Gore graduate from divinity school? No.

I teach in the Divinity School at Duke University, a very secular university. But before Duke, I taught fourteen years at the University of Notre Dame.

My birthday is the date when divinity blossoms in your heart.

We must find out for ourselves that inside us is a god or goddess in embryo that wants to be born so that we can express our divinity.

Discover your divinity, find your unique talent, serve humanity with it.

True success is ... the experience of the miraculous. It is the unfolding of the divinity within us.

The ultimate purpose of our life is to rejoin God in conscious participation of divinity.

Where divinity is sought after, one ought always to behave in the spirit of Love, devoid of the slightest trace of hate, envy and anger. When one cultivates the inner look, one attains the conviction of the basic equality of all.

Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee.

For me, there is no hope without faith. Faith is a higher good. Faith in our divinity.

There is no surer proof of Christ's divinity than that he is still so hated some two thousand years after his death.

Man is God by his faculty for thought.

Divinity is not playful. The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensibl e earnest. By a power that is unfathomably secret, and holy, and fleet. There is nothing to be done about it, but ignore it, or see.

I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it

The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.

I'm working my way toward divinity.

There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.

What little man has to accomplish must be done quickly, at the place that is assigned to him and within the time that is allotted to him. And, man has such a formidable task before him; it is to fulfill it that he has come as man, exchanging for this human habitat all the merit he has acquired during many past lives. The task is no less than the manifestation of the Divinity latent in man.

Divinity pervades all that you see, hear and feel. Being in the constant company of such an all-pervasive divinity, why should you worry and fear.

Divinity resides in Creation in all forms starting from being more miniscule than the atom to the most colossal ones. It pervades the entire Creation as the eternal witness.

THE selfishness fouling your love is veiling divinity from your vision. What is the reason for the selfishness which is veiling divinity from us? It is simply our attachment to the body; It is the weakness of our mind and our enslavement to our senses.

And we will feel that no question has a point because it is more than untrue. We will feel that the Absolute Truth will no longer have to be said and not even sighed by no divinity or Creating Factor and Unique Accidental one because it lies in the divinity is us that cannot be known, nor referenced to something, but only felt.

The saints are a part of this Unique Accidental Occurrence compared to man who is a mere Image reflected in the Mirror of Knowledge of this Accidental occurrence. Thus, through Holiness, so, through Love, man can look beyond him and act accordingly. What more does this superior form of love, which is Holiness, gives them? It gives them Purity, Strength, Shine and Kindness. Why kindness? Because the man is Kind to himself deep in his soul. He loves himself and this is why saints love too, being nothing more than a form of perfection of that piece of Love, of Divinity within the man.

Nature is boundless in her powers, exhausting in her variety: the powers of Art and its capabilities of variety in production are bounded on every side. Nature herself, the infinite, has circumscribed the bounds of finite Art. The one is the divinity; the other the priestess.

We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.

Baba tells us that when we serve another, we should remind ourselves that we are serving the Divinity within that other. This is something that we frequently forget, for it needs a very big mental re-adjustment. Don't worry about it -- just serve! But the very least that is demanded of us in this context is to RESPECT the person we are serving. That includes respecting their beliefs; in fact, it means reaching their spiritual Self through their beliefs, not ours. It means putting oneself in their shoes; cheering them up if possible, but seeing things from their point of view.

This will be the true sacerdotal human being that will look in the distance of the space of the universe as the ages of billions and billions of years, long before the age when man was enslaved collapse on him by slowly making disappear the lights in which the life of a certain star, that could be the star of his Destiny is still wavering. Through the vanity of his own Universe, man will find his true meaning that of being equal to the Universe, to not be the one that is kneeled and enslaved to its laws. Through vanity, man will feel stronger because he will realize that he is not alone in this vanity. That he does not owe any divinity and that he is as strong as any divinity in this vanity. Then vanity will become church and shield, beauty and fulfilment.

You must act ever in the consciousness of your divinity and recognize in each being, a brother, a child of God. The whole world is one family.

Service expresses the divinity hidden in man. It broadens one's heart, it destroys narrow-mindedness, and it gives delight. The evil qualities and tendencies in us can be driven away through service.

It takes a lot to open up and love. I think women find their divinity through their disappointment in the men in their lives. Men find their divinity only if a woman sees it in them.

In order to acquire Divinity, in order to find out the Divinity within us, if you want to know yourself, you should develop PURE LOVE. It is this bond of Love that binds everybody. This is the bond of Love.

There is room in the human heart for all the divinities.

To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

The 'almighty dollar' is the true divinity, and its worship is universal.

Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity.

Not even man that will re-find himself will be able to remove the vanity from this diabolic world, but he can change it from a vanity of his ideological debauchee into a vanity of self reconciliation. The divinity in man cannot admit vanity and thus it will try to replace it with new reasons for which we are born, but it will finally understand that everything is a big vanity and a great sin that no longer belongs to us but to the print that whispered our existence, full of the thorns of the moments that hunt us.

Yes, there is a Divinity, one from which we must never turn aside for the guidance of our huge inward life and of the share we have as well in the life of all men. It is called the truth.

To the soul that knows its own divinity, all else must gravitate

Blessing: Constructive thought directed toward anyone or condition. You bless a man when you recognize the divinity in him.

Healing is the discovery of the Divinity within.

And the meaning of man in this dream of his Illusion of Life is to fulfil the man, to know that he is not in the least more insignificant than the sun or the stars, to know that the sun and the stars of the endless universe will finally become the same stardust as the man, that nothing is above him. He will know the divinity in him won the battle on the entire universe by giving it a meaning, that of a being that accepts the vanity and though this acceptance it becomes a divine being, that no longer is inferior to the universe, but equal to it, because the stras and the man will be lost in the same stardust

You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your inner enlightenment.

We are aspects of Divinity, in the process of knowing ourselves experientially.

Creation is the highest form of Divinity, and your birthright. Truth is, you are creating all the time. The central question in your life is whether you are doing this consciously or unconsciously.

Nature is the mirror of divinity.

Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows – it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.

We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world . We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and firm in time, but we have allowed slight, and eternal, bits of the irrational to form part of its architecture so as to know that it is false.

This felicitous supposition declared that there is only one Individual, and that this indivisible Individual is every one of the separate beings in the universe, and that these beings are the instruments and masks of divinity itself.

The solution to the problem of the day is the awakening of the consciousness of humanity to the divinity within.

Humanity, divine limitation; Divinity, human perfection.

The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.

This is the infusion of life into the idol or invoking the divinity in to the idol. Until this is done, the idol remains a sculpture.

We are a blend of dust and 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.

He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho; that's all the divinity I understand

Divinity reveals herself in all things... everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity. Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being.

It is a denial of the divinity within us to doubt our potential and our possibilities.

I would like to suggest to you that you 'grab life by the horns' and do not let life grab you by the horns. You take control of your lives. … Do not let life control you. … Take charge. Rise to the divinity that is within you.

I read the New Testament, specifically the gospels and I was struck at their divinity, feeling that humans could not have figured this out on their own. We're just not bright enough.

As we move toward our dreams, we move toward our divinity.

Daughters of God know that it is the nurturing nature of women that can bring everlasting blessings, and they live to cultivate this divine attribute.

We invite all to serve the Savior and walk in His paths straightway. There is an urgency for all of us who have this knowledge of His divinity to act upon it without hesitation or delay. The time is now.

Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity.

Divinity of art, it's such a mystery. How to convince people that no matter how much money you can spend on education and art education especially, that it implants, it directs a young person for the rest of their lives, and always in the most humane and positive and dignified manner.

What is this eternity to me without you?What is the infinity of my domains?Empty ringing words,A spacious temple - without a divinity!

Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.