Quotes About Gods

Maybe, she thought with some perversity, it wasn't the gods who controlled the universe, but cats. Cats who toyed with humans as a puppeteer would a marionette.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

We shouldn't even need the word 'atheism'. If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary gods, rational people wouldn't have to deny them.

The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!

Fear is the mother of all gods.

The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.

The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true.

Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.

Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.

The gods of the realms are many and varied -- or they are the many and varied names and identities tagged onto the same being. I know not -- and care not -- which.

Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of religion. You're never short an explanation for anything.)

The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends.

Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-

Fear first created the gods.

Christian - One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife.

The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.

Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.

In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them.