Quotes About Gods

Free-will exists because there is no prophet, tyrant, or so-called gods who have ever conquered all the hearts and minds of mankind at once.

God appeared mysterious to Moses as Moses appeared to his people. This is the whole formula of prophecy, some are called gods and some are called geniuses.

They named supernatural culprits, and traced their actions to enmities in heaven. Artemis was hostile to Pan, Earth to Apollo, virgin Athena to loving Aphrodite.... Because the gods were `present' and manifest, it was necessary to ask them about [things] which might concern them. Otherwise, they might be `unpropitious'.... The old compound of awe and intimacy was still alive. (Pagans and Christians, Penguin, 1988, pp. 236-37)

What are gods for, then, if they let things like this to happen to their people?

What separates history from myth is that history takes in the whole picture, whereas myth averts our eyes from the truth when it turns men into heroes and gods.

In Britain, some public schools now teach paganism in their religious education courses, including "witchcraft, druidism and the worship of ancient gods such as Thor.

We mustn't keep meeting like this. Communications between the people of the moon and earth is forbidden...it is the way of the gods...we mustn't fall in love...but its already too late......

Men went by ways of old Gods or not of any Gods, but by the violent wills of kings who were their own law.

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe, and then they do not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjuration. People populate the darkness; with ghost, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine, and people believe; and it is that rock solid belief, that makes things happen.

Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

As Xenophanes remarked twenty-five centuries ago, men always make their gods in their own image. But to this, television politics has added a new wrinkle: Those who would be gods refashion themselves into images the viewers would have them be.

The man who is sent to preach the gospel of God is first called, and taken in Spirit into the divine assembly where the gods hold judgment. "God has taken His place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods He holds judgment

There was the plague of Athens in 430 BCE. The plague of Justinian in 541 CE. The Black Death in 1347. The Spanish flu in 1918. There were gods of plagues in ancient times—not only the Greek god Apollo, but the Vedic god Rudra and the Chinese deity Shi Wenye. Plague is an old, familiar enemy. And so, in 2020, a plague once again appeared.

Hinduism bears partial responsibility for the many crimes of the caste system, but its admirers defend it by saying that because it has no prophet or pope, it has room for those who believe in thousands of gods or none.

We ride in service to a dream from the gods. If our dreamer's horse fails, you will give her yours. If her food runs low, you will her your own. She will light our way. And now we ride.

They are malicious, gods, these Tuath, to make such things to fight over.

She breathed deep. She was Anglisc. She would not burn. She would endure and hold true to her oath. An oath, a bond, a boast. A truth, a guide, a promise. To three gods in one. To the pattern. For even gods were part of the pattern, even three-part gods. The pattern was everything. Of everything. Over everything.

Gods were like the flotsam that washed up with the waves, always coming and going, and those big enough to remain gradually were worn away by wind and water and time.

They knew she was a creature of the uncanny so let her protect herslf with wyrd and stave while she went to other worlds and communed with the gods.

Of all the gods nailed to the cross, Discord was the most beautiful.

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.

The gods disappeared with their following—nature stood forlorn and lifeless. Arid count and strict measure bound her with iron chains.

Ni mortal ni inmortal, ni pobre ni rico, Eros ejerce un papel de mediador, de manera que logra representar simbólicamente la condición del filósofo, siempre suspendida entre la ignorancia y la sabiduría. Situado entre los dioses (que no buscan la sabiduría por que la poseen) y los ignorantes (que no la buscan porque creen poseerla), el verdadero filósofo, amante de la sabiduría, intentará aproximarse hasta ella persiguiéndola durante toda su vida.