Deity Quotes

233 quotes by 183 authors

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
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
Uplifting traditions . . . that promote love for Deity and unity in families and among people are especially important. — Donald L. Hallstrom
Man, like Deity, creates in his own image. — Elbert Hubbard
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… — J. Anderson Thomson
There are many doors to goodness. (Saying) 'glory to God,' 'praise be to God,' 'there is no deity but God,' enjoining good, forbidding evil, removing… — Muhammad
Time is an ethereal and sometimes cruel goddess. In her relentless passing, she steals away our youth and vitality, often in ways that seem insignificant… — Michael Kelleher
The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It contains a mixture… — Elihu Palmer
Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of… — Edward Gibbon
That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since… — Charles Alexander Eastman
I am a Christian which means that I believe in the deity of Christ, like Tycho de Brahe, Copernicus, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz, Pascalâ€¦ like all… — Augustin-Louis Cauchy
I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a… — A.J. Ayer

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