Respect Quote by Anonymous

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If there is a God that has special plans for humans, then He has taken very great pains to hide His concern for us.…

— Steven Weinberg

Only humans invent moralizing gods who monitor our behavior.

— Robert M. Sapolsky

If we empower ourselves with responsibility over our actions, responsibility over our destinies and responsibility for directing and maintaining and creating our own ethical…

— Stephen Fry

It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that they should…

— Saint Augustine

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?

— Peter Shaffer

It's useful that there should be Gods, so let's believe there are.

— Ovid

“God has not given us specific instructions for each and every possible ethical issue we face, but neither are we left to grope in…

— R.C. Sproul

Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are…

— Ruth Hurmence Green

God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons.

— John Muir