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Divine Nature Quotes

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

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

As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.
- John Hales

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

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

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

the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is.
- C S Lewis

Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone...
Scripture suggests that the essence of the divine nature is compassion and that the heart of God is defined by tenderness.
- Brennan Manning

But of that day and hour no one knows neither the angels in heaven nor the Son but only the Father.' We are not to think that the Son of God as he is God did not know the day or hour but only that his human nature did not know it because his divine nature had not chosen to reveal it to his human nature.
- John Owen

Clearly the Holy Spirit is not merely a quality to be found in the divine nature ... He is a holy intelligent person.
- John Owen

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

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

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

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

Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.
- Marcus Terentius Varro

By salvation I mean not barely according to the vulgar notion deliverance from hell or going to heaven but a present deliverance from sin a restoration of the soul to its primitive health its original purity a recovery of the divine nature the renewal of our souls after the image of God in righteousness and true holiness in justice mercy and truth.
- John Wesley

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