A Quote by John Shelby Spong

The way you become divine is to become wholly human.

John Shelby Spong

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John Shelby Spong
American - Priest
Born: June 16, 1931

The way you become divine is to become wholly human

John Shelby Spong

God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.

Timothy Keller

For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.

Thomas Keating

First, we become aware of that which is Divine around us. Then we become aware of that which is Divine within us. Finally, we become aware that all is Divine, and that there is nothing else. This is the moment of our awakening.

Neale Donald Walsch

Yoga is a big misnomer in the west, people don't know what this yoga is. Yoga means union with the divine. When you become one with the divine, the divine starts flowing through you and you become part and parcel of the whole.

Nirmala Srivastava

If you want the Divine to become alive within you, first of all you as a human being have to become absolutely alive.

Jaggi Vasudev

When you know that you are eternal you can play your true role in time. When you know you are divine you can become completely human. When you know you are one with God you are free to become absolutely yourself.

Mother Meera

And in that far distant day when the gods become wholly beautiful, or we at last are shown how beautiful they always were, this will happen more and more. For mortals, as you said, will become more and more jealous. And mother and wife and child and friend will all be in league to keep a soul from being united with the Divine Nature.

C. S. Lewis

We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God.

Mahatma Gandhi

When you become fully responisble for your life, you can become fully human; once you become human, you may discover what it mens to be a warrior.

Dan Millman

To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler toward human weakness. It means practicing forgiveness of my and everyone else's hourly failures to live up to divine standards. It means learning to forget myself on a regular basis in order to attend to the other selves in my vicinity. It means living so that "I'm only human" does not become an excuse for anything. It means receiving the human condition as blessing and not curse, in all its achingly frail and redemptive reality.

Brene Brown

I have become down-hearted, I have become discouraged, I have become depressed. I'm just like you. I'm a human being and I have my problems.

Dyan Cannon

Young man, if God gives me four years more to rule this country, I believe it will become what it ought to be-what its Divine Author intended it to be-no longer one vast plantation for breeding human beings for the purpose of lust and bondage. But it will become a new Valley of Jehoshaphat, where all the nations of the earth will assemble together under one flag, worshipping a common God, and they will celebrate the resurrection of human freedom.

Abraham Lincoln

A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.

Martin Buber

So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination. Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.

Ramakrishna

Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.

George Bernard Shaw

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