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
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
Do not get up immediately at the end of the archana. The beloved deity should be brought from the seat in front… — Mata Amritanandamayi 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
I want some fact-based evidence about where we came from. Things we consider mysterious need not be attributed to a deity. — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
The hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare, the metaphysics of Descartes, the crimes of Borgia, the virtues of Antonine, the atheism… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Tall, with skin the color of rich coffee, and dressed all in black, Jim looked like he was carved from a block… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
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
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
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
Well, I think the Yoruba gods are truthful. Truthful in the sense that i consider religion and the construct of deities simply… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Common sense religion emphasizes the human contributions that are supposed to move the deity. Valid worship always begins with recognition of what… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. But this is a… — Charles Darwin 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
Astraeus,' Aven called out. 'God of the four winds and friend to sailors. Say a little prayer when you look at him,… — James A. Owen 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
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
Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity, Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, Weary bodies refresh and mollify. — Ovid Copy Share Image
People who need to believe in deities can find them everywhere they look. — Graham Kendall 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
In harvesting of evil deeds, the human race is busy; and doing so is to taste the pangs of Hell . .… — Milarepa 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
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
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