Quotes About Gods

The gods would never allow such a perverse outcome, would they? I am divine. My place is on the mountaintop with Jupiter, Mars and Apollo.

14"Now therefore, fear the LORD, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the LORD! 15"And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods

bulk of superstition that is supposed to attend good fortune, and when he wished for white shirts, it was not a genuinely modest wish so much as it was a memory—he could not have put it into words himself—that the gods of fortune are jealous and easily deceived by false modesty. He had never been a superstitious man, but on Tuesday he scooped the money off his coffee table and was elated when he saw a ladybug on the bathroom window sill.

the conscience of universe itself lies in the path of equality and so is the gods

Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little.

Listen, gods die when they are forgotten. People too. But the land's still here. The good places, and the bad. The land isn't going anywhere. And neither am I.

It's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.

He who does not desire or fear the uncertain day or capricious fate is equal to the gods above and loftier than mortals.

Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.

How can I preach Dissolution? he said. How can I not believe in the gods when I have seen them for myself? That's a question you certainly should be asking, Chrestomanci croaked. Go down to Theare and ask it. Thasper nodded and turned to go. Chrestomanci leaned towards him and said from behind his handkerchief, Ask yourself this too: Can the gods catch flu? I think I may have given it to all of them. Find out and let me know, there's a good chap.

i once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow s foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization

Gods have an ascendency over the angels, who are ministering servants. In the resurrection, some are raised to be angels, others are raised to become Gods."4

And Elder Parley P. Pratt wrote that "Gods, angels and men are all of one species, one race, one great family, widely diffused among the planetary systems, as colonies, kingdoms, nations, &c."2

Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. I'm not even a god.

Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

A good commander can beat the odds. A great commander can beat the gods.

Philosophers of religion have sometimes claimed that all gods are projections of the human personality, and so it may be. But if so, we must at least recognize the empirical fact that many human beings, rather than project their own personalities upon gods wholly of their own creation, have chosen to introject - take into themselves - the religious projections of other human personalities.

Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel.

Thou art the Great Cat, the avenger of the gods, and the judge of words, and the president of the sovereign chiefs and the governor of the holy Circle; thou art indeed…the Great Cat.

Woden, Thor, and Tiu

We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.

I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.