Deities Quotes

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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy,… — Francis Bacon
Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. — Honore de Balzac
As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules over the whole… — Annie Besant
Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. — Ambrose Bierce
Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. — Ambrose Bierce
My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God… — John Henrik Clarke
We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any… — John Henrik Clarke
Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope for your freedom until you… — John Henrik Clarke
Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity. — Leonard Cohen
The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must change a monkey… — Louis Agassiz
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the… — Baron de Montesquieu
Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess. — Pliny the Elder
Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity, Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, Weary bodies refresh and mollify. — Ovid
Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in. — Mark Twain
I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions,… — George Washington
There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it. — Mark Twain
Without love a man is just a body, an empty temple without the deity. With love the deity arrives, the temple is no more empty.… — Rajneesh
Men professing godliness offer their bodies upon Satan's altar, and burn the incense of tobacco to his satanic majesty. Does this statement seem severe? The… — Ellen G. White
Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force, and enacted a… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts… — Rebecca Harding Davis

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