Deities Quotes

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When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not… — Seneca the Younger
I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so- I don't know.… — Mark Twain
What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in… — Lord Byron
As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Deities are invented by fallible and finite beings in the hope and desire to create immortal perfection; unfortunately, such deities only reflect their creators and… — L.E. Modesitt Jr.
The greatest admission a human can make is that perhaps he does not have the intelligence, the vision, the grasp to fully understand the universe,… — Neal Asher
There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in his… — Frank Sinatra
For people raised and programmed on the patriarchal religions of today, religions that affect even the most secular aspects of our society, perhaps there remains… — Merlin Stone
What sort of power is it that really and truly renders the deity present? Human beings automatically think of God as someone who possesses and… — Jon Sobrino
A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith… — Ambrose Bierce
Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating… — Samuel Adams
May the same wonderworking Deity, who long since delivered the Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors and planted them in the promised land, whose Providential agency… — George Washington
Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me. — William Cowper
I think [religion] is presumptuous and I think it is silly, because it makes you believe that you are less than what you can be.… — Harlan Ellison
MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts… — Ambrose Bierce
Uplifting traditions . . . that promote love for Deity and unity in families and among people are especially important. — Donald L. Hallstrom
I sacrifice to no god save myself- And to my belly, greatest of deities. — Euripides
Man, like Deity, creates in his own image. — Elbert Hubbard
But if you miss it, you will next be confronted with the angry deities, ... threatening you and barring your passage ... because you turned… — Gautama Buddha
Maybe there are only atheists in foxholes. If the faithful truly and fully believe in a protective deity, why would they dive into a foxhole… — Unknown Author

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