Quotes About Deity

We believe in the virgin birth of Jesus, in the deity of Christ, and salvation by grace alone through the blood of Jesus shed on the cross. We believe in the physical death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus, for the atonement of sins. We believe in the inerrancy of Scripture, and in one God, manifested through the Holy Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Two and a half centuries later, Scipio Aemilianus brought Tanit from Carthage, and the Romans revered her under the title Caelestis:

They were so convinced of the effectiveness of the rite that they feared its power should it be used against them. They therefore kept secret the sacred name of their city and the deity who protected it (Serv. Dan., Aen., 2, 351; Macr., S, 3, 9, 3). Some identified her with Angerona, who puts her finger on her lips; others with Ops Consivia

This double phenomenon - the influence of occult sciences and devotion to a particular deity - affected many Romans during the imperial era.

The god of woods and flocks, Faunus deifies the forces of nature which the peasant both fears and entreats. So in this instance he was propitiated on the fringes of the city and civilised life

The doctrine of Trinity is simply the insistence, against all objections from otherwise founded intuitions of deity, that God in himself is not other than he is in his history with us.

The God of Thunder has

El ()4 is the root word for Deity. Eloh () is a feminine singular, in other words, a female Deity (a Goddess); im () is the plural ending for things that are masculine. Elohim (), then, should be translated either "Gods and Goddesses" or "Dual-Gendered Deity.

Ratiocination is a relatively superficial and unreal path to the deity.

Yes, she loved the Lord and Lady in Their many forms . . . but those forms spanned the universe of space and time that sprang from Them, and They could be as terrible as the fiery death of suns, as inexorable as Time. A mother's kiss on her child's face came from Them, but so also the glaciers that grind continents to dust.

Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.

What sort of god could be excused the actions of his followers? Didn't it, in a way, infantilise the deity to say he was powerless against the faithful?

Then how unconfident of Itself this Deity was, Who didn't want Its finest creations to know right from wrong; and Who reigned by terror, insisting upon the unqualified submission of even Its closest associates, packing off all dissidents to Its blazing Siberias, the gulag-infernos of Hell ...

The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago - and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since - is no one to consult on questions of ethics. Indeed, to judge him on the basis of his works is highly invidious undertaking.

There is known to be a particular deity for drunkards and lovers.

Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting deity.

Deep in my heart I care about God. What he going to think. And come to find out, he don't think. Just sit up there glorying in being deef, I reckon. But it ain't easy, trying to do without God. Even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain.

Impiety, n. Your irreverence toward my deity.

DOG: A kind of additional or subsidiary Diety designed to catch the overflow or surplus of the world's worship.

BACCHUS, n. A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

ABDOMEN, n. [1.] The temple of the god Stomach, in whose worship, with sacrificial rights, all true men engage. From women this ancient faith commands but a stammering assent. They sometimes minister at the altar in a half-hearted and ineffective way, but true reverence for the one deity that men really adore they know not. If woman had a free hand in the world's marketing the race would become graminivorous. [2.] A shrine enclosing the object.

HEATHEN, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned. The doctrine of Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religion, and whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.

What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.