At the birth of society and civilisation I find a religious landscape littered with feisty female deities who make wisdom their business. — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
When the Amherst sphinx styled herself a pagan, she meant she didn't believe in the biblical God. What sort of deity, if… — Gary Sloan Copy Share Image
From the body of the unborn essence arises the sphere of light, and from that sphere of light arises wisdom. From the… — Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The transcendent experience is brotherly love, nature, harmony and unity. Cultures, in trying to define it, try to define an external deity… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
True budo is a work of love. It is a work of giving life to all beings, and not killing or struggling… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
In my personal view, a failure to discover unimagined objects and answer unasked questions, once HST functions properly, would indicate a lack… — John N. Bahcall Copy Share Image
Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the Light The marrow in the bone We dreamed was safe. .… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God. Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The moral issues with which Marcus struggles would be, as he points out, unchanged whether the universe were mechanical and devoid of… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
Perhaps the individual is so viable a god because he can actually understand the ceremonial significance of the way he is treated,… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The emotional aspects of a wilderness experience might be compared to a religious experience. It is particularly valuable for those people whose… — Donald Glover Copy Share Image
The deity of Christ is the key doctrine of the scriptures. Reject it, and the Bible becomes a jumble of words without… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
Why does anyone do anything? Belief. A belief that they are right and just in their actions. Abraham was willing to sacrifice… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so-… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago-and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
There is evidence for the deity of Jesus -- good, strong, historical , cumulative evidence; evidence to which an honest person can… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Mrs. O'Hair died horribly, a victim of the world she helped to shape. Without the Deity she fought so hard against, there… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Our journey is one of discovery on Sicily. Like the past Greek writers.orators,historians and philosophers we are all searching for answers on… — Daniel Peter Buckley Copy Share Image
Fabricating answers to unanswerable questions is the domain of religion. A deity model is not the default alternative to a scientific mystery. — Graham Kendall Copy Share Image
Men professing godliness offer their bodies upon Satan's altar, and burn the incense of tobacco to his satanic majesty. Does this statement… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen yogurt can make a man invisible, and he… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I think institutions will inevitably substitute a rite or a ritual for the authentic, for the real McCoy, because then priests can… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
My Virgen de Guadalupe is not the mother of God. She is God. She is a face for a god without a… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness and presumptive moral judgments pose a great danger in the political arena. To become convinced of the divine infallibility of one's… — Jim Wright Copy Share Image
A purpose derived from a false premise - that a deity has ordained submission to his will - cannot merit respect. The… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
The awful atrocities of religion happened when people assume that God shares your likes and dislikes. The Crusaders when into battle to… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . .… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every one of the numberless religions and religious sects views the Deity after its own fashion; and, fathering on the unknown its… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain. Reverence… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as privacy between a deity and his worshipper. There are no secrets, no glossed-over failures. Only promises… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Redemption, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right;… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
For people raised and programmed on the patriarchal religions of today, religions that affect even the most secular aspects of our society,… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
But, as we have seen, movement does not require a mover, and modern quantum mechanics has shown that not all effects require… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
