Selected divinity quotes

1. The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our earthly destinies; We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors Close after us, for ever. Pause, my soul, On these strange words - for ever - whose large sound Breaks flood-like, drowning all the petty noise Our human moans make on the shores of Time. O Thou that openest, and no man shuts; That shut'st, and no man opens - Thee we wait!

2. If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.

3. The National Socialist Movement has wrought this miracle. If Almighty God granted success to this work, then the Party was His instrument.

4. How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

5. Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.

6. Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have.

7. The gods too are fond of a joke.

8. Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The singularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.

9. I believe in the Motherhood of God.

10. God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.

11. Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.

12. Those wise men knew God to be in things, and Divinity to be latent in Nature, working and glowing differently in different subjects and succeeding through diverse physical forms, in certain arrangements, in making them participants in her, I say, in her being, in her life and intellect.

13. Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

14. Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men.

15. This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped it in His own image.

16. The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable; not concealed, but incomprehensible; it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure unsearchable sea.

17. 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.

18. Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

19. The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine.

20. When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

21. If God can be found through the medium of any drug, God is not worthy of being God.

22. God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.

23. All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

24. The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

25. To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.

26. In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.

27. All that is real in me is God; all that is real in God is I. The gulf between God and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing God, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.

28. As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this universe.

29. Look upon every man, woman, and everyone as God. You cannot help anyone, you can only serve: serve the children of the Lord, serve the Lord Himself, if you have the privilege.

30. Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe.

31. The essential thing in religion is making the heart pure; the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, but only the pure in heart can see the King. While we think of the world, it is only the world for us; but let us come to it with the feeling that the world is God, and we shall have God.

32. We believe that every being is divine, is God. Every soul is a sun covered over with clouds of ignorance; the difference between soul and soul is owing to the difference in density of these layers of clouds.

33. The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

34. What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let him believe this with the force it is impossible to repel, if he permits his reason to act, and his rule of moral life will follow of course.

35. Love is God's essence; Power but his attribute: therefore is his love greater than his power.

36. There is no part of me that is not of the gods!

37. Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.

38. I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. ... I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those He has created; and since without virtue man can have no happiness in this world, I firmly believe He delights to see me virtuous.

39. When god decided to invent everything he took one reath bigger than a circustent and everything began.

40. Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the Light - The marrow in the bone We dreamed was safe. . . the blood in the veins, the sap in the tree Were springs of Deity.

41. Mozart makes you believe in God because it cannot be by chance that such a phenomenon arrives into this world and leaves such an unbounded number of unparalleled masterpieces. ~ Georg Solti