Quotes About Gods

The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain.

Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth.

So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.

Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.

If by religion we mean a belief in humanity rather than the gods, an effort to make man better and a little happier, then yes, I'm very religious.

Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.

It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.

Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas

Holy mother!" "Hmph. More like holy father. I'd think you'd know the difference." -Hephaetus

In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

In softball . . . , the softball gods giveth and the softball gods taketh away, but that evens out over the season.

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind's thought, and influenced by the mind.

Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.

I fear that we are such gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts, the creatures of appetite, and that, to some extent, our very life is our disgrace.

Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung.

The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.

To deny ones' true nature and the gifts given you by the gods is to tempt disaster. You cannot hide behind the mask forever.

Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.

When Mother Nature speaks, even the Gods hold silence.

Neither humans nor the Gods that they have created are superior to old Mother Nature.

The sight of a worm excites my reverence more than all the gods men have invented.