Quotes about Deity
The islanders were expecting him to swell up or suddenly drop dead. But after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.
- Acts 28:6
For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form.
- Colossians 2:9
Jesus was "the meeting place of eternity and time, the blending of deity and humanity, the junction of heaven and earth." His
- J. Oswald Sanders
The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
- DH Lawrence
Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
He is not humanity deified. He is not Godhead humanized. He is God. He is man. He is all that God is, and all that man is as God created Him.
- Charles Spurgeon
it is not punishment chiefly and principally that the Deity, as Judge, afflicts sinners with; but He operates, as your argument has shown, only to get the good separated from the evil and to attract it into the communion of blessedness.
- Gregory of Nyssa
Perfect happiness I believe was never intended by the deity to be the lot of any one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it, is what I as stedfastly believe.
- Thomas Jefferson
To compare other things with God, is to debase Deity; as if you should compare the shining of a glow-worm with the sun. 3.
- Thomas Watson
This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The Christless cults and deity-dishonoring mushroom religions of this midnight hour tempt the Lord God. Will no one sound the alarm?
- Leonard Ravenhill
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
- Calvin Coolidge