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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
... 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
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
The truth wears longer than all the gods; for it is only in the truth's service, and for love of it, that… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Of course, certain religious expressions are fine. If a tribe of Aqualishes wants to boil rhino horns in frog saliva on the… — Kathleen Parker Copy Share Image
