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Quotes About Gods

Kullar?n?n hayatlar?na ve ölümlerine karar verme gücü tanr?lar?n elindeydi ve tanr?lar, güçlerini k?skançl?kla korurlard?.
~ Jack London
I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer
~ Jacqueline Carey
I know what you are. I've always known from the beginning, Kushiel's Chosen. It is folly, to make claim on one whom the gods have marked for their own. And unlike the others, I am no fool, to grasp at that which burns to the touch. What you have given... she raised one hand, palm upward, the garnet seal dangling at her wrist, ... I hold in an open hand.
~ Jacqueline Carey
That was the problem ... with trusting to the written word ... We were human, mortal and fallible. We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities, and twisted meanings to suit our own ends. And in doing so, mayhap we reshaped the gods themselves.
~ Jacqueline Carey
The gods use their chosen hard, but reveal little to them.
~ Jacqueline Carey
It seems to me that the gods are cruel to women who eat fruit, but that is a thought I keep to myself.
~ Jacqueline Carey
Years ago, I had a teacher who taught me that all ways lead to the Way," I said slowly, thinking. "That there is a great truth behind all the truths of the world, and the faces of the gods are masks that may be changed at will.
~ Jacqueline Carey
Always, he whispered. The gods do not always answer, but they are always listening.
~ Jacqueline Carey
Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is as inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.
~ Jacqueline Carey
And in so doing, mayhap we reshaped the gods themselves. Now that was a thought made me shudder to the bone. I wondered if it were true, and if it were, what would happen when some deity bent out of true by mortal ambition returned to set the record straight.
~ Jacqueline Carey
We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities, and twisted meanings to suit our own ends. And in so doing, mayhap we reshaped the gods themselves. Now
~ Jacqueline Carey
the gods answer our prayers sideways at best.
~ Jacqueline Carey
They say the gods use their chosen hard. Apparently, the gods are part of a vast conspiracy to share their chosen, too.
~ Jacqueline Carey
Sometimes when the gods thirst, blood is the only sacrifice.
~ Jacqueline Carey
We were human, mortal and fallible. We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities, and twisted meanings to suit our own ends. And in so doing, mayhap we reshaped the gods themselves.
~ Jacqueline Carey
Every revolution, whether atheistic or religious, bears witness to a return of the sacred ? in the form of enthusiasm or fervour, otherwise known as the presence of the gods within us
~ Jacques Derrida
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives forever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
~ James A. Michener
Be not impatient in delays But wait as one who understands; When spirit rises and commands The gods are ready to obey.
~ James Allen
Isn't it only through laughter that we become one with the gods and thus can endure life and can overcome all the horror and waste and suffering here on earth? Like tonight, watching all those brave men meet their fate here, on this shore, on this gentle night, through a karma ordained a thousand lifetimes ago, or perhaps even one. Isn't it only through laughter we can stay human?
~ James Clavell
Jesus, the future Son of Man, was to be schooled in the art of exile in one of the world's oldest spiritual cauldrons. He was to journey through the ancient land of the Pharaohs, confront its gods, and do battle with what one observer calls the "chemistry of doubt.
~ James Cowan
I've tried to write from my own understanding of identity in all my comics, whether it's about superheroes or historical conflicts or monkey gods.
~ Gene Luen Yang
For aeons past, there were many gods who descended to be humans, yet there were not many humans who ascended back to their divinity.
~ Raphael Zernoff
We experience the gods and the wisdom of the universe all in our own way
~ Skadi Winter, Hexe
We humans are the gods of this planet. And we also have created Superior Gods than us, to have a sense of security.
~ Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?