Quotes About Deity

La idea central en la mayor parte del Antiguo Testamento podría ser llamada «la idea de la soledad de Dios». — G. K. Chesterton

Nolly Wolfstan, private detective, had the teeth of a god and a face so unfortunate that it argued convincingly against the existence of a benign deity.

thought of the Roman deity Diana, goddess of the moon

A real spy is an ethical believer in an incorporeal and ethical Deity.

The New World Order was made for the ethical believers in an incorporeal, single and perfectly ethical Deity.

We make an idol of our fear and that idol we call God.

Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn't that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition?"

Jesus was "the meeting place of eternity and time, the blending of deity and humanity, the junction of heaven and earth." His

After fifty-five years of dedicating his life and work to the story of ethical systems, Sol Weintraub had come to a single, unshakable conclusion: any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was evil.

I just sit where I'm put, composed of stone and wishful thinking: That the deity that kills for pleasure will also heal, That in the midst of your nightmare, the final one, a kind lion will pick your soul up gently by the nape of the neck, And caress you into darkness and paradise. ~ Ruth Zardo, poet and character in All The Devils Are Here

Analysis is carried into everything. Even Deity is subjected to chemical tests.

to name them in order of appearance) Chaos, Gaia, Tartarus, and Eros. Nothing else, as yet, has come into existence.

The Bible promises a land of milk and honey. The Koran says paradise has rivers of honey for those who guard against evil. Krishna, the Hindu deity, is often shown with a blue bee on his forehead. The bee itself is considered a symbol of Christ: the sting of justice and the mercy of honey, side by side.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.' – VOLTAIRE, FOR AND AGAINST

It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.

And you call yourself a god! Tanamil fetched himself up onto one elbow and said, very earnestly, a very strange thing. I never called myself that, he said. Neither I nor any of the Undying ever made that claim. It is a claim men made for us, and that is how we came to be bound.

philosophy class while in college in Boston were the words of French biologist Jean Rostand: Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

What's the point of a god who never intervenes?

Ayer may be considered a practical atheist: one who sees no reason to worship an invisible deity.

Faith lights us through the dark to Deity.

It is strange to think of a goddess needing friends.

Teti: "Non sono riuscita a far di lui un dio" Patroclo: "Ma hai fatto lui

Although Jesus Christ was Himself the Creative Deity, by whom all things were made, as man He humbled Himself--set aside His divine prerogatives and walked this earth as man -- a perfect demonstration of what God intended man to be--the whole personality yielded to and occupied by God for Himself.

In the burning orb of the sun dwelt the mysterious spirits controlling fire, and in honor of this great light, fires burned upon the altars of countless nations. The fire of Zeus burned upon the Palatine Hill, the fire of Vesta upon the altar of the home, and the fire of aspiration upon the altar of the soul.   PART I   FIRE THE UNIVERSAL DEITY   Since the earliest times man has venerated the element of fire above all others.