Quotes About Deity

Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.

Who is this god person anyway?

We may imitate the Deity in all His attributes; but mercy is the only one in which we can pretend to equal Him. We cannot, indeed, give like God; but surely we may forgive like Him.

Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.

If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

The fable of a god or gods visiting the earth did not originate with Christianity.

Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function?

Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate.

The god of the world's leading religion.

If there is a God what the hell is He for?

What kind of god is it that some human brain can shatter the illusions that have been built up around such a deity? God's a mystery. I'll never be able to tell you what God is.

Do not be content with an imaginary god.

When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.

Jesus Christ, being 2000 years old and some change, is a relatively "new" god of the older god category - and has done quite well for himself, in terms of worship.

I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.

Your God is altogether too human.

I believe in nature instead of God.

Ptah? son of ptooey? What is he god of spitting? i asked

Jehovah was not a moral god. He had all the vices and he lacked all the virtues. He generally carried out all his threats, but he never faithfully kept a promise.

God gets the easiest performance reviews.

Of course God enjoys a good prank as much as the next infallible deity.

A Deity believed, is joy begun; A Deity adored, is joy advanced; A Deity beloved, is joy matured. Each branch of piety delight inspires.

When the Amherst sphinx styled herself a pagan, she meant she didn't believe in the biblical God. What sort of deity, if any, she did believe in is hard to pinpoint.

Abraxas was the god who was both god and devil.