Divinity Quotes - Page 17

• We've lost the sense of our own divinity. We think that we're separate from God, but we can't be. We must be like what we came from, and we came from an infinite, loving, kind, beautiful Source. We've forgotten that.

  Wayne Dyer

  Beautiful, Thinking, Kind

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

  Deepak Chopra

  Sparks, God Image

  "Deepak Chopra Traces Jesus' Untold Story". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. November 12, 2008.

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• The mandala is an archetypal image whose occurrence is attested throughout the ages. It signifies the wholeness of the self. This circular image represents the wholeness of the psychic ground or, to put it in mythic terms, the divinity incarnate in man.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Self, Psychics

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• Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Respect, Shame, Reason

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1995). “Philosophical writings”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Few Words, Movement, Mankind

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.9, Advaita Ashrama

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• The heart is a gate-less gate to divinity. Move to the heart. We are all hung up, stuck in the head - that is our problem. The only problem is that we think too much. There is only one solution - get down from the head to the heart. All your problems will disappear. Problems are created by the head. The heart is innocent. The heart is a fountain of love.

  Vasant Lad

  Moving, Heart, Thinking

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• The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Heaven, Good Man

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• The divine within you is stronger than anything that is without you. Therefore, be not afraid of anything. Rely on your own Inner Self, the Divinity within you. Tap the source through looking within. Improve yourself. Build your character. Purify the heart. Develop the divine virtues. Eradicate evil traits. Conquer all that is base in you. Endeavor to attain all that is worthy and noble. Make the lower nature the servant of the higher through discipline, Tapas, self-restraint and meditation. This is the beginning of your freedom.

  Sivananda

  Character, Heart, Self

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• Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality, Nay, it is Deity - Unable they that love - to die For Love reforms Vitality Into Divinity.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love Is, Vitality, Reform

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1081, Delphi Classics

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• There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his greatest gifts... the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element and to such an extent that it even brings out the bad qualities, as for instance, ruthless, naive egoism (so-called "auto-eroticism"), vanity, all kinds of vices-and all this in order to bring to the human I at least some life-strength, since otherwise it would perish of sheer inanition.

  Carl Jung

  Creativity, Men, Creative

  "Psychology and Poetry". Book by Carl Jung, June, 1930.

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• Rashly,
  And praised be rashness for it--let us know,
  Our indiscretion sometime serves us well
  When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us
  There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
  Rough-hew them how we will

  William Shakespeare

  Plot, Shapes, Ends

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. 10

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• Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Thoughtful, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.179, Penguin

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• I had been a journalist in Europe and then went to divinity school in the early 1990s, and came out as somebody who had the perspective of a journalist and was now also theologically educated.

  Krista Tippett

  School, Europe, Perspective

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• Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  White, Trying, Dresses

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.406, Harvard University Press

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• 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.

  Henri Barbusse

  Men, Inward, Guidance

  "Under Fire". Book by Henri Barbusse, 1916.

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• Men who scorn the idea of submission to the divine Will and are outraged by the notion of a God who requires submission are among the first to demand total submission to the process in which we are involved and seem to attach a kind of moral imperative to willing participation in it. Any other attitude, so they say, is reactionary or escapist or anti-social. Perhaps, after all, they have found a divinity to worship; and, if they have, the only charitable comment must be: God help them!

  Charles le Gai Eaton

  Attitude, Men, Ideas

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• Jesus needs neither books nor Doctors of Divinity in order to instruct souls; He, the Doctor of Doctors, He teaches without noise of words.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Jesus, Book, Doctors

  St. Therese of Lisieux (1915). “Thoughts of Saint Thérèse”, p.88, TAN Books

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• To love each other's essence and to be one-what could be more divine!

  Robert Scheid

  Love, Essence, Divine

  Robert Scheid (1980). “Beyond the Love Game”

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• Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them.

  Henry Norman Hudson

  Flower, Men

  Henry Norman Hudson (1848). “Lectures on Shakespeare”, p.118

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• Only by the supernatural is a man strong--only by confiding in the divinity which stirs within us. Nothing is so weak as an egotist--nothing is mightier than we, when we are vehicles of a truth before which the state and the individual are alike ephemeral.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Men, Ephemeral

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.241, Harvard University Press

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• To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is God our father dear. And Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is Man his child and care. Then every man of every clime That prays in his distress Prays to the human form divine: Love Mercy Pity Peace. And all must love the human form In heathen, Turk, or Jew. Where Mercy, Love and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.

  William Blake

  Love, Peace, Children

  William Blake (2017). “Songs of Innocence and Experience”, p.17, BookRix

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• Through love the devil becomes an angel.
  Through love stones become soft as butter.
  Through love grief is like delight.
  Through love demons become the servants of God.

  Rumi

  Love, Grief, Angel

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• Through love scraps of copper are turned to gold.

  Rumi

  Love, Gold, Copper

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• O Light divine! we need no fuller test That all is ordered well; We know enough to trust that all is best Where Love and Wisdom dwell.

  Christopher Pearse Cranch

  Wisdom, Light, Needs

  Christopher Pearse Cranch (1875). “The Bird and the Bell: With Other Poems”, p.240

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• God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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