Divine Expression Quotes

I do not believe profanity has anything to do with Christianity, thank you.

Man's word is God in man.

God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.

Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.

When we begin to experience our life as the miraculous expression of divinity - not occasionally, but all the time - then we will know the true meaning of success.

God's art speaks of Himself, reflecting who He is and what He is like.

Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but with this tremendous difference that it really happened: and one must be content to accept it in the same way, remembering that it is God’s myth where the others are men’s myths: i.e., the Pagan stories are God expressing Himself through the minds of poets, using such images as He found there, while Christianity is God expressing Himself through what we call 'real things'.

Creativity itself is divine. Creativity itself is godliness.

An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

Well, by accepting that sex is a physical manifestation of God, and that is not a sin-it is a blessing.

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

And the God who hears is also the one who speaks. He has spoken and is still speaking. Humanity remains his project, not its own, and his initiatives are always at work among us.

Surely those who know the great passionate heart of Jehovah must deny their own loves to share in the expression of His.

Creativity has nothing to do with creating something, creativity is simply the presence of God.

Not only the words (vocabula) which the Holy Spirit and Scripture use are divine, but also the phrasing

Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

Imagine that your life's efforts serve as a mark of God and that the only way the divine is seen, heard or expressed is through the legacy you leave behind. The yearning to make a difference is your need to express your purpose and derive meaning from your time on earth.

Music is everything. Evidence of the divine. The possibility of man to be good. The possibility of improving our surroundings and expressing ourselves. All of these things are collapsed together in my mind.

Silence is the only language god speaks.

Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.

What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime.

God is the word that speaks itself.