Quotes About Gods

These were not Methodist Indians but warriors with a lineage that owed nothing to the white man. We did not live upon the same earth that they did and we flatter ourselves when we think we understand them. To pity these men is to pity the gods.

Gods? Don't let that impress you. Anyone can be a god if they have enough worshippers. You don't even have to have powers anymore. In my time I've seen theatre gods, gladiator gods, even storyteller gods - you people see gods everywhere. Gives you an excuse for not thinking for yourselves. God is just a word. Like Fury. like demon, Just words people use for things they don't understand. Reverse it and you get dog. It's just as appropriate.

And so Nat stood up and joined the group, and followed, and watched, and awaited his chance as the light of Chaos lit the plain and gods and demons marched to war.

Does that mean I can't hammer him?' said Thor. Heimdall scowled. 'Not yet,' he said.'When can I hammer him, please?' said Thor.

I'm warning you now, said Freyja stiffly, I have...certain issues...with Loki. (Maddy wondered briefly whether there was anyone in the Nine Worlds who didn't have issues with Loki.)

It's an offense of majesty to love Olympic gods like common mortals. Shouldn't they be just worshiped?

It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.

O fatherland, O Ilium home of the gods, O Troy walls famed in battle!

And no less happy he who knows the rural gods.

Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?

The will of angry gods, an unknown force, are dragging me along, despite myself.

The human body, again, is the greatest of its kind in the universe, and a human being the greatest being. Man is higher than all the animals and all the angels, so say the Scriptures. None is greater than man, for even the Devas or gods will have to come down again and attain salvation through a human body. For, man alone attains to perfection, and not even the Devas.

Such an austere religion has never appealed to the masses and today may have less than 4 million adherents. Jains do not believe in a personal creator God. Liberation is through their way of life and entails becoming a monk or nun, which may not be achieved in their present existence. It is nontheistic; the gods are themselves souls on the way to liberation.

I had long ago learned to ignore things I could not resolve. Whenever I was faced with such choices, something always occured to tip the scales one way or another and relieve me of the decision. I watched the skies for portents from the Gods.

O blessed and happy he, who knowing the mysteries of the gods, sanctifies his life, and purifies his soul, celebrating orgies in the mountains with holy purifications.—Euripides.

Il mare è in effetti quel barbarico stato di indistinzione e disordine da cui è emersa la civiltà e nel quale è sempre possibile che essa ricada, ove non venga salvata dagli sforzi degli dèi e degli uomini. (Gl'irati flutti)

The gods are what has failed to become of us

Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put it into speech. The gods of golf lie in wait to chasten the presumptious.

The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.

Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.

Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry

where are the gods the gods hate us the gods have run away the gods have hidden in holes the gods are dead of the plague they rot and stink too there never were any gods there's only death

Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?

Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.