Divine Names Quotes

“St. Hierotheos, the great teacher quoted by Dionysius in his book on Divine Names: “As form giving form to all that is formless, in so far as It is the principle of form, the Divine Nature of the Christ is none the less formless in all that has form, since It transcends all form....”
― Titus Burckhardt

“Although each person contains all the Divine Names within him or her self, each person also has a particular Name that uniquely manifests the Divine. This is his or her particular Lord (al-rabb al-khass). Each person has his or her own 'Lord.' This 'Lord' is one aspect of Allah and flows from one of His Divine Names.”
― Laurence Galian, The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis

“When Allah manifests Itself to us as the Real, or the Cosmos, we perceive the Divine Names. The Names, due to their distinction from one another (although they all proceed from the same Essence), generate duality. The Names are the self-disclosure of the Essence. However, in knowing Allah as Essence, the dervish crosses over to Unity.”
― Laurence Galian, The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis