The two greatest works of war mythology in the west ... are the Iliad and the Old Testament... When we turn from… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I can never acknowledge the right of slavery. I will bow down to no deity however worshipped by professing Christians - however… — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share Image
Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments,… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
“On any one street people could pray to a variety of deities, Zeus and Jupiter, Isis and Osiris, the Jewish god Yahweh,… — Gwendolyn Womack Copy Share Image
It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and… — Mary Somerville Copy Share Image
The kenosis of the Son reveals the mystery of God who is Love. This gift of life is an extension of a… — Olivier Clement Copy Share Image
Death is the inseparable antecedent of life; the seed dies in order to produce the plant, and earth itself is rent asunder… — Albert Pike 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
In my judgment, the Deists were all successfully answered. The god of nature is certainly as bad as the God of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing, and predatory. The invention of hell measured by our Christianity… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I picture the evidence for the deity of Jesus to be like the fast-moving current in a river. To deny the data… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life.… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
Well, in the sense of the traditional notion of God, coming out of Christianity and Islam and the Abrahamic religions, I do… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
In the beginning, the feminine principle was seen as the fundamental cosmic force. All ancient peoples believed that the world was created… — Judy Chicago Copy Share Image
“The unknown grayish mystifying forest was benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul of man, as a devout, earnest, continued, investigation of the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
Then from the world all spirituality will be extinct, all moral perfection will be extinct, all sweet-souled sympathy for religion will be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
'I believe in one God and Mohammed the Apostle of God,' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The intellectual image… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I have confused ideas of deity, heavily influenced by mind-altering years of reading science fiction, that do not often trouble me, but… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Occam's razor suggests that, if some event is physically plausible, we don't need recourse to more extraordinary claims for its being. Surely… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
The world, and whatever that be which we call the heavens, by the vault of which all things are enclosed, we must… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
“No one really believes in the gods of the New Age; they are deities not of the celestial hierarchy above but of… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
Children, when we go to the temple, do not hurry to have darshan, then make some offering and return home in a… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
What the mysterious is I do not know. I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
One of the great disadvantages of a literary or scriptural tradition like the biblical one is that a deity or context of… — Joseph Campbell 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
“Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic. Worse, this Semitic deity was… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There are many doors to goodness. (Saying) 'glory to God,' 'praise be to God,' 'there is no deity but God,' enjoining good,… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
The second thing I wrote down that day was that exclusive male imagery of the Divine not only instilled an imbalance within… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Treasured Pagan Deities were misrepresented and distorted by the Christians for political and religious gain. Dressing their own Satan, who has remained… — Laurie Cabot Copy Share Image
If by believing you mean praying to an anthropomorphic deity who created the world and half controls it and half observes it,… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for… — George Washington Copy Share Image
