Quotes About Gods

Overhead the constellations dip and wheel. My divinity shines in me like the last rays of the sun before they drown in the sea. 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.

Pharmakeia, such arts are called, for they deal in pharmaka, those herbs with the power to work changes upon the world, both those sprung from the blood of gods, as well as those which grow common upon the earth. It is a gift to be able to draw out their powers, and I am not alone in possessing

Not everything may be foreseen. Most gods and mortals have lives that are tied to nothing; they tangle and wend now here, now there, according to no set plan. But then there are those who wear their destinies like nooses, whose lives run straight as planks, however they try to twist. It is these that our prophets may see.

The truce between the gods held only because Titans and Olympians each kept to their sphere.

I do not plan to tell her. Telegonus, these are gods. You must keep your tricks close or you will lose everything.

You chose her," he says. "Over me." "Over your pride." The word I use is hubris. Our word for arrogance that scrapes the stars, for violence and towering rage as ugly as the gods.

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

All the little gods of irony must whoop and weep and roll on the floors of Olympus when they tune in on the night thoughts of a truly fatuous male.

Mesopotamian literature is concerned about the jurisdiction of the various gods in the cosmos with humankind at the bottom of the heap, the Genesis account is interested in the jurisdiction of humankind over the rest of creation as a result of the image of God in which people were created.

In the ancient Near East people were created as slaves to the gods. The world was created by the gods for the gods, and people met the needs of the gods.

Many things the gods achieve beyond our judgement,' said the sorrowful girl. 'What we thought is not confirmed and what we thought not God contives.

every study of the gods, of everyone's gods, is a revelation of vengeance toward the innocent

every study of the gods, of everyone's gods, is a revelation of vengeance toward the innocent.

I almost always have a notebook with me... a notebook is a nice thing to have in a room, the same way it's nice to have a musical instrument in a stand. .. it makes the household gods happy.

Real are the dreams of gods, and soothly pass their pleasures in a long immortal dream.

Into the wide stream came of purple hue– 'Twas Bacchus and his crew! The earnest trumpet spake, and silver thrills From kissing cymbals made a merry din– 200 'Twas Bacchus and his kin!

Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.

To hate excellence is to hate the gods.

We need faith, not because there are beings who will punish us or reward us, but because gods are a wonderful way of describing things that are happening to us.

You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.

In the stories, the gods have the power to delay the moon's course if they wish, to spin a single night the length of many.

the grudges of gods are as deathless as their flesh,

Great gods smell fear like sharks smell blood, and they will devour you for it just the same.

I had understood gods could bleed, but I had never seen it. He was one of the greatest of our kind, and the drops that fell from him were golden, smearing his back with a terrible beauty.