Death is the inseparable antecedent of life; the seed dies in order to produce the plant, and earth itself is rent asunder… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and… — Mary Somerville Copy Share Image
It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The kenosis of the Son reveals the mystery of God who is Love. This gift of life is an extension of a… — Olivier Clement Copy Share Image
“There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing, and predatory. The invention of hell measured by our Christianity… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In my judgment, the Deists were all successfully answered. The god of nature is certainly as bad as the God of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not enough to behave reverently; we must feel in our hearts reverence for our Heavenly Father and our Lord, Jesus… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
You’re like a god from a Greek myth, Saiman. You have no empathy. You have no concept of the world beyond your… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The explanation of types of structure in classes - as resulting from the will of the Deity, to create animals on certain… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
There's an old saying, "We can mess it up and God cleans it up." I haven't noticed a deity of any sort… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
“On any one street people could pray to a variety of deities, Zeus and Jupiter, Isis and Osiris, the Jewish god Yahweh,… — Gwendolyn Womack Copy Share Image
I can never acknowledge the right of slavery. I will bow down to no deity however worshipped by professing Christians - however… — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share Image
Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments,… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
The two greatest works of war mythology in the west ... are the Iliad and the Old Testament... When we turn from… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
When we look upon lives so human and yet so small, we feel as if we ourselves were enlarged to an embarrassing… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“When Africans were kidnapped, trafficked en masse and brutally dragged in chains to work camps in the “New World,” called plantations, we… — Abiola Abrams Copy Share Image
I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The second thing I wrote down that day was that exclusive male imagery of the Divine not only instilled an imbalance within… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Treasured Pagan Deities were misrepresented and distorted by the Christians for political and religious gain. Dressing their own Satan, who has remained… — Laurie Cabot Copy Share Image
If by believing you mean praying to an anthropomorphic deity who created the world and half controls it and half observes it,… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic. Worse, this Semitic deity was… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There are many doors to goodness. (Saying) 'glory to God,' 'praise be to God,' 'there is no deity but God,' enjoining good,… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
One of the great disadvantages of a literary or scriptural tradition like the biblical one is that a deity or context of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Children, we should consider every name as the name of our beloved deity. Imagine that He is the one that appears in… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
But we're not God. We're humans, and at the end of the day we have to march to the beat of a… — Ronald Perelman Copy Share Image
Some said the original evil was the vacuum caused by the Fairy Queen Lurline leaving us alone here. When goodness removes itself,… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
There will always be in society certain persons who are mercuries of its approbation, and whose glance will at any time determinefor… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Time is an ethereal and sometimes cruel goddess. In her relentless passing, she steals away our youth and vitality, often in ways… — Michael Kelleher Copy Share Image
'I believe in one God and Mohammed the Apostle of God,' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The intellectual image… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Then from the world all spirituality will be extinct, all moral perfection will be extinct, all sweet-souled sympathy for religion will be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Occam's razor suggests that, if some event is physically plausible, we don't need recourse to more extraordinary claims for its being. Surely… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
I have confused ideas of deity, heavily influenced by mind-altering years of reading science fiction, that do not often trouble me, but… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
