Acts 17:28 (NRSV) — Theosis

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For “In him we live and move and have our being”; as even some of your own poets have said, “For we, too, are his offspring.”

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Related Quotes

Maximus the Confessor

Let us become the image of the one whole God, bearing nothing earthly in ourselves, so that we may consort with God and become gods, receiving from God our existence as gods.

Origen

Thou shalt resemble Him . . . having made thee even God to his glory.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The element of selfishness crowds in upon us constantly. We need to overcome it, and there is no better way than to go to the house of the Lord and there serve in a vicarious relationship in behalf of those who are beyond the veil of death. What a remarkable thing this is. In most cases, we do not know those for whom we work. We expect no thanks. We have no assurance that they will accept that which we offer.