Plato Quotes

To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

As a child of God, your destiny, if you work hard enough and are faithful, is to become like Him. That means that there is nothing that is true that you cannot learn, because He knows all truth.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.

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.

For Christians, they need to access the power of Jesus and not look at Christianity as a religion. It is our Lord Jesus that makes you change, and Christians need to actualize it and put it into practice.

If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love.

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

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

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.

Jesus represents the possibilities of a new dimension of existence that transcends all the boundaries that restrict us from opening ourselves to God and allowing this source of love to flow through us.

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

As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection.

Many Christians have what we might call a 'cultural holiness.' They adapt to the character and behavior pattern of Christians around them...But God has not called us to be like those around us. He has called us to be like Himself. Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God.

In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.

My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.

Walking with God down the avenue of prayer we acquire something of His likeness, and unconsciously we become witnesses to others of His beauty and His grace.

It's dangerous to assume that because a man is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. I am sure that the reason that I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy.

Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us.

The Ascension is actually the birth of the Inner You expressed as the spiritual individualism of the inner particle state.

As the more holy we are upon earth the more happy we must be.

First, draw off your hearts, because Jesus Christ, the Head, is risen and ascended upon high, and there sits at the right hand of His Father; and if the Head is in heaven, where should the members be but where the Head is? Shall Christ our Head be in heaven, and shall our hearts, which are His members, lie groveling on the ground and panting after the dust of the earth, making all our inquiry and labor after these? 'If Christ our Head be risen, seek those things that are above, where Christ sits at God's right hand.'

We profess to think Jesus the grandest and most glorious of men, yet hardly care to be like him. When we are offered his Spirit, that is, his very nature within us, for the asking, we will hardly take the trouble to ask for it.