Deities Quotes

It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.

— Lawrence Kasdan

Faith lights us through the dark to Deity.

— William Davenant

Nature is saturated with Deity.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.

— Ben Jonson

Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.

— Pliny the Elder

Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

— Edward Young

Father-Mother is the name for Deity.

— Mary Baker Eddy

Analysis is carried into everything. Even Deity is subjected to chemical tests.

— James Russell Lowell

My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way.

— Jane Hamilton

Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent.

— C. A. Bartol

Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

— Mark Twain

"God save our gracious Queen": Why would we invoke a non-specific deity to bail out these unelected spongers?

— Bill Bailey

Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity?

— John Stuart Mill

If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy.

— George Carlin

As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent,…

— Bayard Taylor

Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and…

— Mary Somerville

In the course of time one does not feel even the existence of God. After attaining enlightenment one sees that gods and…

— Sarada Devi

“Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast…

— Ernest Hemingway

Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true…

— Charles Darwin

As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

A Deity believed, is joy begun; A Deity adored, is joy advanced; A Deity beloved, is joy matured. Each branch of piety…

— Edward Young

While eating, our attention should not be focused just on the taste. Imagine our chosen deity or guru is present within us…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

It was before Deity embodied in a human form walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

The Sufi saint Mazhar Jaan Jana of 18th century Delhi believed that the Quran condemns bowing before deities because in pre-Islamic idol…

— Asghar Ali Engineer

A prevalent fallacy is the assumption that a proof of an afterlife would also be a proof of the existence of a…

— A.J. Ayer

As far as I know, Clifford Pickover is the first mathematician to write a book about areas where math and theology overlap.…

— Martin Gardner

Just about every generation has some horrific evil that it must fight. For the Democratic Party today that evil is carbon dioxide…

— Dennis Prager

As a child, what I was missing was so much bigger to me than what I had. My mother-mythic, imaginary-was a deity…

— Jodi Picoult

It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.…

— Francis Bacon

What you do with your life is ascribing more to what you invest your time in. If you spend a lot of…

— Jon Foreman

“So they trust in the deity of the Old Testament, an incontinent dotard who soiled Himself and the universe with his corruption,…

— Thomas Ligotti

In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I fear that many of us rush about from day to day taking for granted the Holy Scriptures. We scramble to honor…

— Carlos E. Asay

My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and…

— Henry David Thoreau

It was the fashion of the times to attribute every remarkable event to the particular will of the Deity; the alterations of…

— Edward Gibbon

Economic man and the Calvinist Christian sing to each other like voices in a fugue. The Calvinist stands alone before an almost…

— Lionel Trilling

What a wonder is it, that two natures infinitely distant, should be more intimately united than anything in the world; and yet…

— Thomas Goodwin

If we want to postulate a deity capable of engineering all the organized complexity in the world, either instantaneously or by guiding…

— Richard Dawkins