divinity

We are to love God most importantly so that we can grow to love people as he loved us, not so that we can feel more divine and worthy than the worldly.

For aeons past, there were many gods who descended to be humans, yet there were not many humans who ascended back to their divinity.

Divine spirit dwells in the soul of every man.

It doesn't matter how you conceive of divinity. It only matters that you see it in everything, including yourself.

All such desires are cut short by the statement: the Word became flesh. It is in his sheer humanity that he is the Revealer. True, his own also see his δ_ξα (v.14b); indeed if it were not to be seen, there would be no grounds for speaking of revelation. But this is the paradox which runs through the whole gospel: the δ_ξα is not to be seen alongside the _ά_ξ as through a window; it is to be seen in the _ά_ξ and nowhere else. If man wishes to see the δ_ξα, then it is on the _ά_ξ that he must concentrate his attention, without allowing himself to fall victim to appearances. The revelation is present in a peculiar hiddenness.

The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion. Donald Gray expresses this: "Jesus reveals in an exceptionally human life what it is to live a divine life, a compassionate life.

Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art.

For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce storms, or fine weather, I should not believe that there was anything divine, but human, in these things, provided the power of the divine were overpowered by human knowledge and subjected to it.

There is something divine, mystical, magical and unexplainable in the universe that is listening and responding to each of us.

Great dream or idea comes up when you are thinking of something other than yourself.

The divinity dwells in thee. Awaken the divine power.

Love is a sacred spirit.

While the gods remained more human, the men were more divine.

Love releases us into the realm of divine imagination, where the soul is expanded and reminded of its unearthly cravings and needs. We think that when a lover inflates his loved one he is failing to acknowledge her flaws - "Love is blind." But it may be the other way around. Love allows a person to see the true angelic nature of another person, the halo, the aureole of divinity. Certainly from the perspective of ordinary life this is madness and illusion. But if we let loose our hold on our philosophies and psychologies of enlightenment and reason, we might learn to appreciate the perspective of eternity that enters life as madness, Plato's divine frenzy.

The Spirit, and your soul are not the same things. The Spirit is God - the source. Your soul is God's imagination.

World is a divine play. At the beginning and at the end, we are the same.

For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettiness lurking in them, but, at bottom, all heartwoes, a mystic significance, and, in some men, an archangelic grandeur; so do their diligent tracings-out not blue the obvious deduction. To trail the genealogies of these high mortal miseries, carries us at last among the sourceless primogenitures of the gods; so that, in the face of all the glad, hay-making suns, and the softcymballing, round the harvest-moons, we must needs give in to this: that the gods themselves are not for ever glad. The ineffaceable, sad birth-mark in the brow of man, is but the stamp of sorrow in the signers.

The creative mind is a divine force.