I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic… — Katie Holmes Copy Share Image
Gods are called many by the error of some who worshipped many deities, thinking as they did the planets and other stars… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Here Jove with Hermes came; but in disguise Of mortal men conceal'd their deities; One laid aside his thunder, one his rod — Ovid Copy Share Image
"Religions" of the Roman world varied. Most of it was ritual practices. There were periodic occasions when cities honored their guardian deities… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
I tried to picture a young, insecure Edward and couldn't, but it was nice to know that once he'd been a boy.… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
the fastest-growing brand of religion is of the magical 'name it and claim it' variety, in which the deity exists only to… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The Republicans hardly need a party and the cumbersome cadre of low-level officials that form one; they have a bankroll as large… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
It is hard to think of conversion as a blinding light on the road to Damascus, or as a highly spiritual or… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
And for our unparalleled ingratitude to that Adorable Being Who has seated us in a land irradiated by the cheering beams of… — Elbridge Gerry Copy Share Image
Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced a very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the relations… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures, or at least who are thought so, mistake suffering for sanctity, and… — Sydney, Lady Morgan Copy Share Image
We tend to focus our attention at Christmas on the infancy of Christ. The greater truth of the holiday is His deity.… — John F. MacArthur Copy Share Image
I think Eros should be dirty. In Greek legend, as I'm sure you are aware, he fell in love with the minor… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make good people good; it makes dead people alive. That's the difference… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The first thing Islam does is to destroy the self image of the believers. It convinces them that without Islam they are… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
The American Revolution was the grand operation, which seemed to be assigned by the Deity to the men of this age in… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Even Ramanama is by itself lifeless, but it has become a living symbol of the deity because millions of people have consecrated… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Life and the Universe show spontaneity;Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;Truth must be sought with… — Mortimer Collins Copy Share Image
NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
He that despairs degrades the Deity, and seems to intimate that He is insufficient, or not just to His word; and in… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
If I had a religion, its deity would be Audysseus, the sound God, and He would be a vengeful god, dishing out… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder.… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
If one attempts to achieve deity or to have the holy, he is thrown back; he is refused. His language is taken… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned .… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I never thought of myself as a king. People really want you to be their deity. They forget the fact that you… — John Gutfreund Copy Share Image
Where shall we get religion? Beneath the open sky, the sphere of crystal silence surcharged with deity.. The midnight earth sends incense… — Sam Walter Foss Copy Share Image
Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world;… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality, Nay, it is Deity - Unable they that love - to die… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun,… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Your woman wears underwear out in public,” Sabin said. “Must be nice. How’d you manage that little miracle?” “Only the Deity knows. — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
If Israel is to please the Lord fully, they will live lives that are as distinctive among the nations as their Lord… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
In the interests of everyone the artist had a responsibility to use his medium well. In the Tibetan culture, most of the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope for your… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
At one time kings were anointed by Deity, so the problem was to see to it that Deity chose the right candidate.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“What is it about our specific belief in God and His wishes that makes us so angry at the specific beliefs of… — Chuck Austen Copy Share Image
