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 Copy Share Image
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 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
Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
In one breath, I can say that we are God, but in another I have to say that we aren't deities. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
Groundless superstition ill befits an army; valor is the only deity that rules in the warrior's breast. — Silius Italicus Copy Share Image
Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way. — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“Mantras are to be recited together. Mantras are an instrument to please the celestial deities.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Of course God enjoys a good prank as much as the next infallible deity. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity, Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, Weary bodies refresh and mollify. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Distinguisht Link in Being's endless Chain! Midway from Nothing to the Deity! — Edward Young Copy Share Image
The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
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
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
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
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The principle of love within us is an attribute of the Deity, and it is placed within us to be dispensed independently… — Brigham Young 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
Through heaven and earth God's will moves freely, and I follow it, As color follows light. He overflows The firmamental walls with… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 carved images on the early Minoan sealstones are tantalising, inscrutable. The Nature Goddess is yanked from the soil like a snake… — Alison Fell 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 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
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
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
Notwithstanding the poverty of my outside experience, I have always had a significance for myself, and every chance to stumle along my… — Alice James 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
Armstrong lives as he rides - surrounded by a cocoon of aides and helpers, his gimlet eyes focused on victory… The self-described… — Selena Roberts 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
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
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
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