Divine Comparison Quotes

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished.

I have always wanted to become a saint. Unfortunately, when I have compared myself with the saints, I have always found that there is the same difference between the saints and me as there is between a mountain whose summit is lost in the clouds and a humble grain of sand trodden underfoot by passers-by.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

Man is a greater miracle than any god he ever invented.

There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.

I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is.

God is like a shitty girlfriend.

The Bay Area is so beautiful, I hesitate to preach about heaven while I'm here.

How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What possible reason could he have for envying the gods

Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.

What gnats are compared with humans, so is the whole creation compared with God.

None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good.

It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.

This I know, that between finite and infinite there is no comparison; so that the difference between God and the greatest and most excellent created thing is no less than the difference between God and the least created thing.

It is always edifying for mortals to look at a god.

I mean, you know, God knows everything, but I'm not quite that good. Every once in a while, something will slip by me.

The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.

In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.

Man is greater than the gods.

The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a completed day of work: "And behold, what he had done was good.

Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.

We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.