Agony Quote by Emma Goldman

Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments the gods…

— Emma Goldman

There must be real gods see, the painted gods how fair!

— Hilda Doolittle

The orthodox faith painted God as a revengeful being, and yet people talk about loving such a being.

— P. T. Barnum

When we unravel the theological tomes of the ages, the makeup of God becomes quite clear. God is a human being without human limitations…

— John Shelby Spong

All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know…

— Zora Neale Hurston

The gods, after all, are only human, and once their rage has been placated they are perfectly capable of acts of mercy and grace.

— Thomas M. Disch

Every race of people since time began who have attempted to describe God by words or painting, or by carvings, have conveyed their idea…

— Henry McNeal Turner

Mankind has been punished long and heavily for having created its gods; nothing but pain and persecution have been man's lot since gods began.

— Emma Goldman

In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and the gods grow old along…

— Anonymous

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in…

— Oscar Wilde

If atheists are deaf to the word of God, then theists are blind to the ways of man.

— Michael Palin