Quotes About Deity

He [Crowley] realized that humanity is being asked to pray to some sky deity to be forgiven for expressing the needs of the very bodies which this deity supposedly created for humanity. In short, creation is being punished for having the very qualities it was created to have.

In the island the gods are killed, killed like animals. And the man who kills a god becomes a god himself.

The deity they want, is, of course, finite, a person much like themselves, with thoughts and feelings limited and mutable in the process of time.... And for their purpose, what is not this is really nothing.

Lady Dedlock is always the same exhausted deity, surrounded by worshippers, and terribly liable to be bored to death, even while presiding at her own shrine.

Christ's incarnation challenges us to give up our rights in order to love God and others. Philippians 2:6-7 says, "who though he existed in the form of God did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped, but emptied himself..." Christ did not hold onto his rights and privileges as deity but relinquished them in order to better love God and others.

it is not punishment chiefly and principally that the Deity, as Judge, afflicts sinners with; but He operates, as your argument has shown, only to get the good separated from the evil and to attract it into the communion of blessedness.

the laws of Newton, appropriate tools for a clockmaker deity who could create a world and set it running for eternity.

Governance in India comes in the iron-clad armour of bureaucracy. Anyone in uniform considers it his or her right that we regard them as some sort of deity.

We don't have a solid theory of how the universe originated, but that doesn't mean we have to invoke a deity.

for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.

...but you - women like you are dangerous- ominous – take care, Love – men will first fear you, then later, turn you into a deity...

One could always count on Baal for a religious experience, but not so Yahweh.

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

Perfect happiness I believe was never intended by the deity to be the lot of any one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it, is what I as stedfastly believe.

To compare other things with God, is to debase Deity; as if you should compare the shining of a glow-worm with the sun. 3.

The ancient Greeks and Romans worshiped the Virgin Mother and Child for centuries before the Christian era. One of these was Myrrha, [332:6] the mother of Bacchus, the Saviour, who was represented with the infant in her arms. She had the title of "Queen of Heaven." [332:7] At many a Christian shrine the infant Saviour Bacchus may be seen reposing in the arms of his deified mother. The names are changed—the ideas remain as before. [332:8]

highest yoga tantra meditations, with their ritualized deity-yoga visualizations.

Anubis – A god with a man's body and the head of a dog or jackal.

Y sus sacerdotes jamás sospecharon que Pies y Manos no eran sino las extremidades de un mismo dios.

no such affluence of wisdom and knowledge, and truth and holiness, could flow from any other source than Deity

What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This mawky worm-bent tabernacle.

Put away these frozenjawed primates and their annals of ways beset and ultimate dark. What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This gawky wormbent tabernacle.

Too often those who have rightly contended for Jesus' full deity have created a God to whom they do not feel close rather than one who became human in every way like them but without sin (Heb 4:15). As God "with us," Jesus enables us to come boldly before God's throne (Heb 4:16) when we accept the forgiveness of sins he made available (Matt 1:21) and develop an intimate relationship with him.

Everyone must, from time to time, make a sacrifice on the altar of stupidity, to please the deity and mankind.