Deity Quotes
233 quotes by 180 authors
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Some people spend their entire lives devoted to a religion that claims to be the ‘right’ religion... they often deny scientific evidence that contradicts their…
— David G. McAfee
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There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to…
— Seneca the Younger
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Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced a very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the relations we stand in…
— Alexander Hamilton
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It is not enough to behave reverently; we must feel in our hearts reverence for our Heavenly Father and our Lord, Jesus Christ. Reverence flows…
— L. Tom Perry
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OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Any and all religions are real, the genuine article, to their practitioners. There can never be one religion, prophet, or savior that will satisfy all…
— Scott Cunningham
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Where shall we get religion? Beneath the open sky, the sphere of crystal silence surcharged with deity.. The midnight earth sends incense up, sweet with…
— Sam Walter Foss
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The great misconception in our day is this: that God isn´t concerned to protect His own integrity. He´s a kind of wishy-washy deity, who just…
— R C Sproul
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For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.
— Carl Jung
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Of course, certain religious expressions are fine. If a tribe of Aqualishes wants to boil rhino horns in frog saliva on the National Mall to…
— Kathleen Parker
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My Virgen de Guadalupe is not the mother of God. She is God. She is a face for a god without a face, an indigena…
— Sandra Cisneros
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Journeying through secret doors, curving corridors, and connecting rooms into the mountain was like being digested by the different organs of a deity.
— Alex Grey
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The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.
— William Robertson Smith
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In my personal view, a failure to discover unimagined objects and answer unasked questions, once HST functions properly, would indicate a lack of imagination in…
— John N. Bahcall
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Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science.
— Mary Somerville
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No parent can consistently teach faith in Christ who profanes the name of Deity. Profanity is never heard in the well-ordered home. Swearing is a…
— David O. McKay
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One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain. Reverence for the name…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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One of the great disadvantages of a literary or scriptural tradition like the biblical one is that a deity or context of deities becomes crystallized,…
— Joseph Campbell
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Blasphemy: a law to protect an all-powerful, supernatural deity from getting its feelings hurt.
— Ricky Gervais
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To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen.
— Richard Lewontin
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