Deity Quotes
233 quotes by 180 authors
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There is no such thing as privacy between a deity and his worshipper. There are no secrets, no glossed-over failures. Only promises kept and abandoned,…
— Ilona Andrews
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I think Eros should be dirty. In Greek legend, as I'm sure you are aware, he fell in love with the minor deity Psyche. It…
— Stephen Fry
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What the mysterious is I do not know. I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that I do not…
— Jawaharlal Nehru
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Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.
— Terence McKenna
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Sienna, meet Zacharel. He's a warrior angel for the One, True Deity. Zacharel, meet Sienna. She's mine.
— Gena Showalter
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Morality, then, is not a set of arbitrary regulations dictated by a vengeful deity and written down in a book; nor is it the custom…
— Steven Pinker
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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
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We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls - not to mention our worldly goods.…
— Erich Segal
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My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and…
— Ellen Hopkins
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I cannot prove that gods do not exist. Nor can I prove that the world and everything in it was not created by an entity…
— Christopher Paolini
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A supreme deity would no more gift us with intellect and expect us to forsake it in moments of bafflement, than He would fashion us…
— Terryl L. Givens
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Why does anyone do anything? Belief. A belief that they are right and just in their actions. Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son, Isaac,…
— Libba Bray
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There's a reason cats were near deity in ancient Egypt. Dogs may be loyal, but cats are smart. This one must recognize our bond. You…
— Kiersten White
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Of course. I was on the run from evil spirits that wanted to kill me and now, according to the local paper, the law. Yet…
— Meg Cabot
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Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world; but that he…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine, and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed…
— John T. Flynn
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I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making…
— Benjamin Franklin
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And yet this same Deity says to me, resist not evil; pray for those that despitefully use you; love your enemies, but I will eternally…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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