We reduce the deity to vulgar fractions. We place our own little ambitions and label them ?divine messages?. With our short sight… — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
Sleep, thou repose of all things; sleep, thou gentlest of the deities; thou peace of the mind, from which care flies; who… — Ovid Copy Share Image
By getting as close to the true idea of religion, of spirituality as it is possible for us to get.. ...we would… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
The miracle stories of the New Testament can no longer be interpreted in a post-Newtonian world as supernatural events performed by an… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Barbarity, caprice; these qualities, however nominally disguised, we may universally observe from the ruling character of the deity in all regular religions. — David Hume Copy Share Image
I have heard of that idea. I also met certain Rastafarians. I told them clearly that I am a man, that I… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
May every citizen ... have a proper sense of the Deity upon his mind and an impression of the declaration recorded in… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
This sense of wonder leads most scientists to a Superior Being - der Alte, the Old One, as Einstein affectionately called the… — Abdus Salam Copy Share Image
Just about every generation has some horrific evil that it must fight. For the Democratic Party today that evil is carbon dioxide… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
A prevalent fallacy is the assumption that a proof of an afterlife would also be a proof of the existence of a… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
As far as I know, Clifford Pickover is the first mathematician to write a book about areas where math and theology overlap.… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
It was before Deity embodied in a human form walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The Sufi saint Mazhar Jaan Jana of 18th century Delhi believed that the Quran condemns bowing before deities because in pre-Islamic idol… — Asghar Ali Engineer Copy Share Image
Hubbard set up the Church of Scientology in Hollywood in 1954 for a reason. He understood that celebrity was increasingly a feature… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
The greatest admission a human can make is that perhaps he does not have the intelligence, the vision, the grasp to fully… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
What you do with your life is ascribing more to what you invest your time in. If you spend a lot of… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
For the Deist ... prayer is calling across a void to a distant deity. This lofty figure may or may not be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a spirit of resistance implanted by the Deity in the breast of man, proportioned to the size of the wrongs… — Charles James Fox Copy Share Image
Brethren, the Deity was not revealed to gratify our curiosity, or to increase our pride of intellect, but to bring us into… — Edward Norris Kirk Copy Share Image
We may imitate the Deity in all His attributes; but mercy is the only one in which we can pretend to equal… — Laurence Sterne 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
With pantheism...the deity is associated with the order of nature or the universe itself...when modern scientists such as Einstein and Stephen Hawking… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Journeying through secret doors, curving corridors, and connecting rooms into the mountain was like being digested by the different organs of a… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Love is one of the chief characteristics of Deity, and ought to be manifested by those who aspire to be the sons… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And yet this same Deity says to me, resist not evil; pray for those that despitefully use you; love your enemies, but… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Music is given of God to further his purposes. Sweet melodies mellow the souls of men and help prepare them for the… — Bruce R. McConkie 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
