Divinization Quotes

God became man so that man might become a god.

As man now is, God once was; as God is now man may be.

Christ was made man that we might be made God.

GOD became man so that we in our turn may become God.

The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God.

When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University - that I don't like.

The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.

The Word of God became man, that thou mayest learn from man how man may become God.

The central idea of the Eastern Fathers was that of theosis, the divinization of all creatures, the transfiguration of the world, the idea of the cosmos and not the idea of personal salvation...Only later Christian consciousness began to value the idea of hell more than the idea of the transfiguration and divinization of the world...The Kingdom of God is the transfiguration of the world, the universal resurrection, a new heaven and a new earth.

Christianity is not about the divine becoming human so much as it is about the human becoming divine. That is a paradigm shift of the first order.

To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.