Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Of course. I was on the run from evil spirits that wanted to kill me and now, according to the local paper,… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of the Deity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman--Astarte, Isis, Demeter,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Truly disappointment is the guardian deity of human life; she sits at the threshold of unborn time, and marshals the events as… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
With respect to public acknowledgment of religious belief, it is entirely clear from our nation's historical practices that the Establishment Clause permits… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Hinduism, being one of the world's oldest, largest and most diverse traditions, also provides inspiration toward deities in our game. In fact,… — Todd Harris Copy Share Image
Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“The first monotheist religion known to us appeared in Egypt, c.1350 BC, when Pharaoh Akhenaten declared that one of the minor deities… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine, and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission,… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
... We in the USA have been depending on prayers, pleading, and self-abasement to a deity to bring us magical advantages, and… — James Randi Copy Share Image
A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
“The Bronze and Iron Age peoples saw water as having supernatural powers whilst its dark mysterious depths were seen as the gateway… — Carole Carlton Copy Share Image
There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
Deities are invented by fallible and finite beings in the hope and desire to create immortal perfection; unfortunately, such deities only reflect… — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
This is insane," I said blankly. "I'm the instrument of an all-powerful primordial deity's wave of chaos and destruction." "That's kind of… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unbroken Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one -- except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The great misconception in our day is this: that God isn´t concerned to protect His own integrity. He´s a kind of wishy-washy… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty. — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
Thus the Old Testament prophets, Jesus himself, and his apostles all attribute the divine power in his (Jesus) ministry not to the… — Jack Deere Copy Share Image
MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I mean, I think even God would agree with this at this point. God’s existence isn’t important. It’s what we do with… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What kind of god is it that some human brain can shatter the illusions that have been built up around such a… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I am a Christian which means that I believe in the deity of Christ, like Tycho de Brahe, Copernicus, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz,… — Augustin-Louis Cauchy Copy Share Image
To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
If a god showed up every time you put a quarter in the prayer slot it wouldn't be God, it would be… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
I find the evidence for the deity of Jesus and the reliability of the Bible to be powerful and persuasive, and that… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Any and all religions are real, the genuine article, to their practitioners. There can never be one religion, prophet, or savior that… — Scott Cunningham Copy Share Image
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