Divine Nature Quotes:

Grace renders us like God and a partaker of the divine nature.

- Thomas Aquinas

topic: Grace, Divine, Divine Nature

God's entire divine nature is wholly and entirely in all creatures, more deeply, more inwardly, more present than the creature is to itself.

- Martin Luther

topic: Evolution, Divine, Divine Nature

the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is.

- C. S. Lewis

source: C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.290, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Divine, Divine Nature, Wounds

As you awaken to your divine nature, you'll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, touch and experience.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Spiritual, Appreciate, Divine, Spiritual Awakening, Spiritual Wisdom

Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.

- William Law

topic: Christian, Religious, Strong, Divine Nature

Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.

- Marcus Terentius Varro

source: "De Re Rustica". Book by Marcus Terentius Varro (Act III, Scene 1), 37 BC.

topic: Art, Cities, Fields, Divine Nature

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

- Martin Luther

topic: Valentines Day, Love Is, Essence, Lifeless, Divine Nature

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material conditions and feel our divine nature. We do not depend upon any external help in meditation. The touch of the soul can paint the brightest color even in the dingiest places; it can cast a fragrance over the vilest thing; it can make the wicked divine-and all enmity, all selfishness is effaced.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Meditation and Its Methods”, p.15, editionNEXT.com

topic: Spiritual, Color, Meditation, Divine Nature

Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda (1926). “The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited”

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Evil, Divine Nature

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

- Joseph Addison

source: Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1794). “The Guardian”, p.67

topic: Men, Umpires, Literature, Divine Nature

You can visualize God's light each day and send it to someone who needs help. Your divine nature must reach out and touch the divine nature of another. Within you is the light of the world, it must be shared with the world.

- Peace Pilgrim

source: Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.74, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

topic: Light, Needs, Each Day, Light Of The World, Divine Nature

My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.

- Peace Pilgrim

source: Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.128, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

topic: Peace, Awakening, Divine, Lethargic, Divine Nature

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

- Baruch Spinoza

source: Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.33, Commodius Vicus

topic: Divine, Particular, All Things, Divine Nature

Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole.

- Alfred Rosenberg

topic: Faith, Men, Blood, Nature Of Man, Divine Nature

In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.

- William Ames

source: William Ames (1968). “The marrow of theology”

topic: Exercise, Perfect, Firsts, Divine Nature

However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature.

- John Polkinghorne

topic: Church, Christ, Creation, Eastern, Divine Nature

What we usually call human evolution is the awakening of the divine nature within us.

- Peace Pilgrim

topic: Divinity, Awakening, Evolution, Divine Nature, Human Evolution

I challenge every one of you who can hear me to rise to the divinity within you. Do we really realize what it means to be a child of God, to have within us something of the divine nature?

- Gordon B. Hinckley

topic: Children, Mean, Challenges, Divine Nature

There is nothing pleasurable except what is in harmony with the utmost depths of our divine nature.

- Henry Suso

topic: Depth, Harmony, Divine, Divine Nature

Looking through the eyes of the divine nature you see the essence within the manifestation, the creator within the creation, and it is a wonderful, wonderful world!

- Peace Pilgrim

source: Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.24, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

topic: Eye, Essence, World, Wonderful World, Divine Nature

A new year is a gift from God, a part of the Divine nature of God.

- T. B. Joshua

topic: New Year, Years, Divine, Divine Nature

When you judge others, look at yourself - You too have flaws and the divine nature has accepted you with all your flaws. It doesn't judge you. Who are you to judge?

- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

topic: Motivational, Judging, Looks, Look At Yourself, Divine Nature

Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes

- Marcus Terentius Varro

topic: Skills, Cities, Divinity, Divine Nature

Christ is the Word of God in person. The Bible is the Word of God in writing. Both are the Word of God in the words of men. Both have a human nature and a divine nature.

- Peter Kreeft

source: Peter Kreeft (2004). “The God who Loves You: "love Divine, All Loves Excelling"”, p.111, Ignatius Press

topic: God, Writing, Men, Divine Nature

It is the responsibility of each human being today to choose between the force of darkness and the force of light. We must therefore transform our attitudes, and adopt a renewed respect for the superior laws of Divine Nature.

- Maurice Strong

topic: Attitude, Responsibility, Law, Divine Nature

The progressive growth of the finite consciousness of man towards this Self, towards the universal , the eternal, the infinite, in a word his growth into spiritual consciousness by the development of his ordinary ignorant natural being into an illumined divine nature, this is for Indian thinking the significance of life and the aim of human existance.

- Sri Aurobindo

topic: Spiritual, Men, Thinking, Divine Nature, Significance Of Life

Perhaps the biggest obstacle to loving yourself and living your Spirit is the belief that you can only do so when all your problems are solved, all your worries are alleviated, and all your concerns and fears have disappeared. The truth is, this will never happen. We're not here to get over our humanness, but rather to accept and make peace with it... and remember our Divine nature

- Sonia Choquette

topic: Love, Loving Yourself, Worry, Nature Love, Divine Nature

Each finite creature can reflect only a fraction of the divine nature; thus, in the diversity of His creatures, God's infinity, unity and oneness appear to be broken into an effulfgence of manifold rays.

- Edith Stein

topic: Oneness, Broken, Diversity, Divine Nature

But, did the Divinity [of Christ] suffer? [...] The holy fathers explained this point through the aforementioned clear example of the red-hot iron, it is the analogy equated for the Divine Nature which became united with the human nature. They explained that when the blacksmith strikes the red-hot iron, the hammer is actually striking both the iron and the fire united with it. The iron alone bends (suffers) whilst the fire is untouched though it bends with the iron.

- Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

topic: Father, Iron, Fire, Divine Nature, Blacksmiths

We are beloved spirit sons and daughters of heavenly parents, with a divine nature and destiny. Our Savior, Jesus Christ, loved us enough to give His life for us. His Atonement provides the way for us to progress on the path to our heavenly home, through sacred priesthood ordinances and covenants.

- Carole M. Stephens

topic: Daughter, Jesus, Home, Son And Daughter, Divine Nature

Emotional turmoil can be a powerful catalyst to reconnect us with our divine nature. It propels us into a journey of self discovery and urges us to learn how to love and accept our entire being.

- Debbie Ford

source: Debbie Ford (2009). “Spiritual Divorce: Divorce as a Catalyst for an Extraordinary Life”, p.3, Harper Collins

topic: Powerful, Emotional, Journey, Journey Of Self Discovery, Emotional Turmoil

And in that far distant day when the gods become wholly beautiful, or we at last are shown how beautiful they always were, this will happen more and more. For mortals, as you said, will become more and more jealous. And mother and wife and child and friend will all be in league to keep a soul from being united with the Divine Nature.

- C. S. Lewis

source: C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.310, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Beautiful, Mother, Children, Divine Nature

Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.

- Sri Aurobindo

source: Sri Aurobindo (1995). “The Mother”, p.28, Lotus Press

topic: Expression, Elements, Shapes, Divine Power, Divine Nature

We make assertions and denials of what is next to [the Divine Nature], but never of It, for It is both beyond every assertion, being the perfect and unique cause of all things, and, by virtue of Its preeminently simple and absolute nature, free of every limitation, beyond every limitation; it is also beyond every denial.

- Pope Dionysius

topic: Christian, Simple, Unique, Divine Nature

Today a new faith is awakening — the Myth of the blood; the belief that to defend the blood is also to defend the divine nature of man in general. It is a belief, effulgent with the brightest knowledge, that Nordic blood represents that Mysterium which has overcome and replaced the older sacraments.

- Alfred Rosenberg

source: "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, p. 65, 1930.

topic: Men, Blood, Awakening, Nature Of Man, Nordic

Temple mirrors of eternity remind us that each human being has "divine nature and destiny"; that "sacred ordinances and covenants available in holy temples make it possible for individuals to return to the presence of God and for families to be united eternally"; and that, growing together in love and faithfulness, we can give children roots and wings.

- Gerrit W. Gong

topic: Children, Destiny, Mirrors, Faith And Love, Ordinances

Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent in the divine nature and appears to us as a self-caused propensity to pity the wretched, spare the guilty, welcome the outcast, and bring into favor those who were before under just disapprobation. Its use to us sinful men is to save us and make us sit together in heavenly places to demonstrate to the ages the exceeding riches of God's kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Jesus, Kindness, Men, Undeserving, Divine Nature

I am God, says Love, for Love is God and God is Love, and this Soul is God by the condition of Love. I am God by divine nature and this Soul is God by the condition of Love. Thus this precious beloved of mine is taught and guided by me, without herself, for she is transformed into me, and such a perfect one, says Love, takes my nourishment.

- Marguerite Porete

source: Marguerite Porete, Ellen L. Babinsky (1993). “The Mirror of Simple Souls”, p.104, Paulist Press

topic: Love Is, Perfect, Soul, Divine Nature, Perfect One

The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding this, the more light get, the more thankful we ought to be, for by this means we have the greater range for satisfactory contemplation. time the bounds of light will be still farther extended; and from the infinity of the divine nature, and the divine works, we may promise ourselves an endless progress in our investigation them: a prospect truly sublime and glorious.

- Joseph Priestley

source: Joseph Priestley (1780). “The theological and miscellaneous works of Joseph Priestley”, p.373

topic: Nature, Mean, Circles, Divine Nature

Given the sin of impiety through which they [the Romans] sinned against the divine nature [by idolatry], the punishment that led them to sin against their own nature followed.... I say, therefore, that since they changed into lies [by idolatry] the truth about God, He brought them to ignominious passions, that is, to sins against nature; not that God led them to evil, but only that he abandoned them to evil....

- Thomas Aquinas

topic: Christian, Lying, Passion, Divine Nature

Whenever I think of God I can only conceive of Him as a Being infinitely great and infinitely good. This last quality of the divine nature inspires me with such confidence and joy that I could have written even a miserere in tempo allegro.

- Joseph Haydn

topic: Thinking, Joy, Inspire, Divine Nature

If we live by the principles of the gospel, we must be good people, for we will be generous and kind, thoughtful and tolerant, helpful and outreaching to those in distress. We can either subdue the divine nature and hide it so that it finds no expression in our lives, or we can bring it to the front and let it shine through all that we do.

- Gordon B. Hinckley

topic: Thoughtful, Expression, People, Divine Nature

God's nature is revealed most perfectly in the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, as recorded in the New Testament of the Bible, who was sent by God to reveal the divine nature, summarized in 'God is Love.'

- George F. R. Ellis

topic: Jesus, Teaching, Atheism, Nazareth, Divine Nature

The Father and the Son have one Will, and that Will is the Holy Ghost, Who gives Himself to the soul so that the Divine Nature permeates the powers of the soul so that it can only do God-like works.

- Meister Eckhart

source: Meister Eckhart (2007). “Meister Eckhart's Sermons”, p.38, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Father, Son, Giving, Divine Nature

Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.

- Florence Nightingale

source: Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2002). “Florence Nightingale's Theology: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.578, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

topic: Unseen, Holiness, Divine, Divine Nature

He, who, in view of its inconsistencies, says of human nature the same that, in view of its contrasts, is said of the divine nature, that it is past finding out, thereby evinces a better appreciation of it than he who, by always representing it in a clear light, leaves it to be inferred that he clearly knows all about it.

- Herman Melville

source: Herman Melville (1988). “The Confidence-man: His Masquerade”, p.464, Northwestern University Press

topic: Appreciation, Past, Light, Divine Nature, Inconsistency

Wherefore, as I have said to you, I, God, have become man, and man has become God by the union of My Divine Nature with your human nature. This greatness is given in general to all rational creatures, but, among these I have especially chosen My ministers for the sake of your salvation, so that, through them, the Blood of the humble and immaculate Lamb, My only-begotten Son, may be administered to you.

- St. Catherine of Siena

topic: Humble, Son, Greatness, Divine Nature, Immaculate

You, faulty men! Not only got lost on the way of charlatains, but contravened against the divine nature. Weren't settled for the wealthy, clear air, you bewitched it with smoke and burnt smell, you weren't settled for the best spring water, you filled up yourself with several kinds of hard drinks, the sun shined for you in vain, you didn't behold it ...

- Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary

source: "The Positivum". Pamphlet by Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary, written between 1910-1920.

topic: Spring, Men, Air, Spring Water, Bewitched

The beauty of the person of Christ, as represented in the Scripture, consists in things invisible unto the eyes of flesh. They are such as no hand of man can represent or shadow. It is the eye of faith alone that can see this King in his beauty. What else can contemplate on the untreated glories of his divine nature? Can the hand of man represent the union of his natures in the same person, wherein he is peculiarly amiable? What eye can discern the mutual communications of the properties of his different natures in the same person?

- John Owen

source: John Owen (1679). “Christologia Or, A Declaration of the Glorious Mystery of the Person of Christ, God and Man: With the Infinite Wisdom, Love and Power of God in the Contrivance and Constitution Thereof ...”, p.197

topic: Kings, Communication, Eye, Divine Nature

It is the grandeur of Christ's character which constitutes the chief power of His ministry, not His miracles or teachings apart from His character. The greatest triumph of the Gospel is Christ Himself--a human body become the organ of the Divine nature, and revealing, under the conditions of an earthly life, the glory of God.

- Horace Bushnell

topic: Teaching, Character, Miracle, Divine Nature

The education system today makes and educated person selfish. It makes that person a slave to the senses and as a consequence the person forgets their own divine nature.

- Sai Baba

topic: Selfish, Educational, Today, Divine Nature