14 quotes
Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
Benjamin DisraeliThe highest revelation is that God is in every man.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Henry David ThoreauTrust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.
Wayne DyerNor 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 GibranEvery man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman’s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.
Henry AdamsWas Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven’t realized it yet.
Eckhart TolleEvery natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.
John MuirThe 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 HamiltonThe 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 or obscured by mortal power.
Alexander HamiltonWhen men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.
VoltaireAll men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
SocratesHow 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.
Alan WattsEven if I accepted that Jesus – like almost every other prophet on record – was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.
Christopher Hitchens