Bette Midler Quotes

He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods.

The way you become divine is to become wholly human.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Though we are not Almighty God Himself, nevertheless, we are now divine.

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

You can change. You can 'come unto Christ, and be perfected in him.'

God's desire is that we excel.

Darkness is the only path to light. It is not our wonderful gifts that make us closer to God: it's using our garbage to transform ourselves. This is the key that unlocks the door that opens to God.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.

Alas, I think I am becoming a god.

Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

We are all on a journey of faith, and we have to polish that faith.

I don't think there's anyone who would say they don't want or need more of God's power in their life.

Jesus was a human being who, while on Earth, completely self-actualized and fulfilled in all ways the potential glory that lies within us all.

Spiritual growth and spirituality always seem suspect to some people.

Amputechture' is my personal way of describing enlightenment, or just the celebration of this person who is a shaman and not a crazy person.

Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down. That looking upward and going upward and seeking perfection are what is called salvation; and the sooner a man begins to go higher, the sooner he raises himself towards this idea of truth as salvation.

Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. The Art of Peace is a celebration of the bonding of heaven, earth, and humankind. It is all that is true, good, and beautiful.

Every man who steeps himself in the spiritual possibilities of his heart is a valuable helper in the building of the spiritual pyramid which will someday reach to heaven.

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.