The special characteristics of a human being are consideration, refinement, patience, and thoughtfulness. Once one has practiced these, that leads to the practice of self-sacrifice, which leads to divine action. When one sacrifices one's time and one's advantage in life for the sake of another one loves, respects, and adores, this sacrifice raises one higher than the standard of ordinary human beings. This is the divine nature, which is not human, because the human being begins to think as God thinks and because his or her actions become more and more divine, until they become the actions of God. That person is greater than the person who merely believes in God, for his or her own actions have become the actions of God.