Quotes About Gods

Why do you think there are no gods on Mount Olympus now? They killed themselves, that's why. They were terminally bored.

Meritocracy is about building heaven on earth, about transforming humans into Gods. If that's not your vision, meritocracy is certainly not for you.

When gods die, self-respect buds', murmured Orland Fank. 'Gods and their examples are not needed by those who respect themselves and, consequently, respect others. Gods are for children, for little, fearful people, for those who would have no responsibility to themselves or their fellows.

When Plutarch says that a city might sooner subsist without a geographical site than without belief in the gods, his words would not have appeared strange to his countrymen at any time.']

You are silver and gold, the moon and the sun. You carry within you the genes of the original twins who fought on Danu Talis ten millennia ago. Sophie, you and your brother are the descendants of gods.

Jullie dragen de genen van de oorspronkelijke tweeling die tien millennia geleden op Danu Talis heeft gevochten. Sophie, jij en je broer zijn de afstammelingen van goden. - Nicolas Flamel

Vóór de Alouden hebben de twaalf Archonen over de wereld geheerst.' 'Vóór de Alouden?' 'De wereld is ouder en woester dan je denkt.' De kraaiengodin glimlachte. 'Veel ouder. Veel woester.

In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself and the believers is that I am skeptical of 2,500 gods whereas they are skeptical of 2,499 gods. We're only one God away from total agreement.

What is the probability that Yahweh is the one true god, and Amon Ra, Aphrodite, Apollo, Baal, Brahma, Ganesha, Isis, Mithra, Osiris, Shiva, Thor, Vishnu, Wotan, Zeus, and the other 986 gods are false gods? As skeptics like to say, everyone is an atheist about these gods; some of us just go one god further.

If the gods cannot recognize your names," she warned, "they will never hear your prayers.

You'll be with me, won't you?" "indeed." "Then what could go wrong?" Lord Sanabalis visibly grimaced. "You clearly do not believe in angry gods.

By 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared. But our tools will not be magic wands and potions but the science of computers, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and most of all, the quantum theory.

When the history of the earth enters a very critical period, as at present, the myths, gods and demons that direct us, the Archetypes, come to take an even more active part, becoming almost visible to many. They participate directly in the combat, as happened in the last world war, of cosmic resonance.... When the mythic slain SS were not destroying men, they were their immortal Gods in combat against other Entities, or Daemons. They were symbols against symbols.

The gods of the Greeks were like helpless children compared to humankind today and the powers we now wield.

The gods of war have reawakened me. They've ignited my ego and want me to go to war again.

All religions, with their gods, their demi-gods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the prejudiced fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties.

Unas eats their magic, swallows their spirits: Their big ones are for his morning meal, Their middle ones for his evening meal, Their little ones for his night meal, And the oldest males and females for his fuel Utterances 273·274 Antechamber, East WaU The kingfeeds on thegods

Though one praises all the gods, Birds will not come down to deserts.

Prayers? You only pray when it suits you, and you already burned all the gods.

From the daimon which restrains us, roubriaô mari ôdam baabnabaôth ass adônai aphniaô ithôlêth abrasas aêôôy; Mighty Headless One, Deliver us From the daimons that restrain. mararraiô ioêl kotha athorêbalo abraôth, Deliver us: aôth abraôth basym isak sabaôth iaô" "He is lord of the gods;

You must completely destroy all the places where the nations you dispossess have served their gods: on high mountains, on hills, under a spreading tree. You must tear down their altars, smash their pillars, cut down their sacred poles [asherahs], set fire to the carved images of their gods, and wipe their name from that place. (Deuteronomy 16:20)

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

The Aikido I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods and I cooperate with each of them. The Great Spirit of Aiki enjoins all that is Divine and enlightened in every land. Unite yourself to the Divine, and you will be able to perceive gods wherever you are.

Spiritual preceptors and the gods and goddesses lead willing souls to understand and practice the disciplines that lead to spiritual enlightenment but they cannot do the disciplines for spiritual aspirants. Spiritual aspirants must diligently follow the teaching.