Divinity Quotes

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism. (Friedrich Schlegel)
The 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. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding. View quote
John Lennon
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter. View quote
Charles Lindbergh
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. View quote
Thomas Browne
I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe. View quote
William Howard Taft
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity. View quote
Novalis
A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows--it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces. View quote
José Rizal
It must be so - Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. (Joseph Addison)
Do not merely practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; it deserves that, for only art and science can exalt man to divinity. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
Altars should face the east, and should always be placed on a lower level than are the statues in the temples, so that those who are praying and sacrificing may look upwards towards the divinity. View quote
Vitruvius
In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing which appears in man as the mystery of an unusual skill or capacity. It is something divine, a spark of the divinity in him, not his own possession or achievement, but a miracle. View quote
Marie-Louise von Franz
Those alone are dear to Divinity who are hostile to injustice. View quote
Pythagoras
When going to the temple to adore Divinity neither say nor do any thing in the interim pertaining to the common affairs of life. View quote
Pythagoras
Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a superhuman person, but the immanent divinity in things, the essentially spiritual structure of the universe, is the object of the transcendentalist cult. In that address of the graduating class at Divinity College in 1838 which made Emerson famous, the frank expression of this worship of mere abstract laws was what made the scandal of the performance. View quote
William James
Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity. View quote
John Donne
Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature. View quote
Friedrich Schlegel
It is sufficiently evident from many circumstances, that the doctrine of the divinity of Christ did not establish itself without much opposition, especially from the unlearned among the Christians, who thought that it savoured of Polytheism, that it was introduced by those who had had a philosophical education, and was by degrees adopted by others, on account of its covering the great offence of the cross, by exalting the personal dignity of our Saviour. (Joseph Priestley)
If Christ is the wisdom of God and the power of God in the experience of those who trust and love Him, there needs no further argument of His divinity. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
There's one uneasy borderline between what is external and what is internal, and this borderline is defined exactly by the sense organs and the skin and the introduction of external things within my own body. Consciousness is altered by physical events and physical objects, which impinge upon my sense organs, or which I introduce into my body. Now the name traditionally given to external objects or processes which change you internally is sacrament. Sacraments are the visible and tangible techniques for bringing you close to your own divinity. View quote
Timothy Leary
It's self centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity. View quote
John Templeton