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Quotes About Deity

Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
~ Michel de Montaigne
The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the Deity.
~ Isaac Watts
Father-Mother is the name for Deity.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
~ Terry Pratchett
Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity.
~ Joseph Addison
God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.
~ R. C. Sproul
Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
~ Charles Darwin
What else is nature but God?
~ Seneca the Younger
Nature is saturated with deity.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hold onto your innocence of heart, at all costs! Because it is the spark of deity that you are born with. Don't let the trolls steal your divineness.
~ C. JoyBell C.
Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity, Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, Weary bodies refresh and mollify.
~ Ovid
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
~ Denis Diderot
Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God.
~ Charles Bradlaugh
God is a creation of human brain
~ Durgesh Satpathy
The power of God, the Holy Ghost, is the Spirit of Dominion. It makes one a god.
~ John G. Lake
Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God but to create Him.
~ William Clark
Rama-fication' of Hinduism.
~ William Dalrymple
Look at all the Variety of Creatures; they are what they are for this only End, that in their infinite Variety, Degrees, and Capacities, they may be as so many speaking Figures, living Forms of the manifold Riches and Powers of Nature, as so many Sounds and Voices, Preachers, and Trumpets, giving Glory and Praise and Thanksgiving to that Deity of Love which gives Life to all Nature and Creature.
~ William Law
And therefore, that the holy Deity is all Love, and Blessing, and Goodness, willing and working only Love and Goodness to every Thing, as far as it can receive it, is a Truth as deeply grounded in me as the feeling of my own Existence.
~ William Law
Hold it therefore for a certain Truth, that you can have no Good come into your Soul, but only by the one Way of a Birth from above, from the Entrance of the Deity into the Properties of your own soulish Life.
~ William Law
The natural, called in Scripture, the old Man, is steadily the same in Heart and Spirit in every Thing he does, whatever Variety of Names may be given to his Actions. For Self can have no Motion but what is selfish, which Way soever it goes, or whatever it does, either in Church or State. And be assured of this, that Nature in every Man, whether he be learned or unlearned, is this very Self, and can be nothing else, till a Birth of the Deity is brought forth in it.
~ William Law
Hard to know is the deity of Abraxas.... Abraxas [is] life, altogether indefinite, the mother of good and evil. Abraxas begetteth truth and lying, good and evil, light and darkness. [Abraxas] is the hermaphrodite of the earliest beginning. It is abundance that seeketh union with emptiness. It is holy begetting. It is love and love's murder. It is the appearance and the shadow of man.
~ David H. Rosen
However consistent the world may be, allowing certain suppositions and conjectures, with the idea of such a Deity, it can never afford us an inference concerning his existence.
~ David Hume