Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity? — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
"God save our gracious Queen": Why would we invoke a non-specific deity to bail out these unelected spongers? — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
Analysis is carried into everything. Even Deity is subjected to chemical tests. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent. — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way. — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained. — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Thus the Old Testament prophets, Jesus himself, and his apostles all attribute the divine power in his (Jesus) ministry not to the… — Jack Deere Copy Share Image
The great misconception in our day is this: that God isn´t concerned to protect His own integrity. He´s a kind of wishy-washy… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
What kind of god is it that some human brain can shatter the illusions that have been built up around such a… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman--Astarte, Isis, Demeter,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of the Deity… — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
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
This organ deserves to be styled the starting point of life and the sun of our microcosm just as much as the… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
Because the Christian God is not a lonely God, but rather a communion of three persons, faith leads human beings into the… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
I fear that many of us rush about from day to day taking for granted the Holy Scriptures. We scramble to honor… — Carlos E. Asay Copy Share Image
In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“So they trust in the deity of the Old Testament, an incontinent dotard who soiled Himself and the universe with his corruption,… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
What a wonder is it, that two natures infinitely distant, should be more intimately united than anything in the world; and yet… — Thomas Goodwin Copy Share Image
If we want to postulate a deity capable of engineering all the organized complexity in the world, either instantaneously or by guiding… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Economic man and the Calvinist Christian sing to each other like voices in a fugue. The Calvinist stands alone before an almost… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
I think God is everything. Human beings created the punitive, vengeful deity who considers us to be innate sinners. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
When we become hollow bones there is no limit to what the Higher Powers can do in and through us in spiritual… — Frank Fools Crow Copy Share Image
The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
