Quotes About Deity

They wanted them to look like the Gods. God doesn't look like this.

The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

I thought you were all-seeing." All-knowing, not all-seeing!" he snapped. "I'm a God, not Santa Claus!

S'il n'existait pas Dieu il faudrait l'inventer." (If God did not exist he would have to be invented.)

Personally, I do not want to make you a man. Men are so very frail. Men break. Men die. No, I've always wished to make a god.

To their simple, degenerate minds there was only one thing to do when faced by a God more powerful than their own: Convert.Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

I know there is only oneGovernorOfDeities.

The best I can do is to 'pretend' that I'm my own god. But in the pretending I have to pretend that I'm not pretending, and somehow that doesn't sound very god-like to me.

If I could have my way I would place the Deity on half-pay as the Government of this Country did the subaltern officers.

Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.

Gods can screw anything and anybody. For reference, see history. Atticus O'Sullivan

Only by being both deity and humanity could Jesus Christ bridge the gap between where God is.

"God save our gracious Queen": Why would we invoke a non-specific deity to bail out these unelected spongers?

In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.

I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.

Man made "God" in his own image. The eternal, the infinite, and unnameable was reduced to a mental idol that you had to believe in and worship as "my god" or "our god.

He appears oftener in the tales of mythology than any other god.

Laund was oblivious to the fivefold punishment the very hint of which had hitherto been enough to send him ki-yi-ing under Danny's bed. He was not fighting for himself, but for the child who was at once his ward and his deity. On himself he was taking the torture that otherwise must have been inflicted on Danny. For perhaps the millionth time in the history of mankind and of dog, the Scriptural adage was fulfilled, and perfect love was casting out fear.

If the Hindu story exhibits its "god of gods" in such a degrading light, how much more honouring is the Papal story to the Son of the Blessed, when it represents Him as needing to be pacified by His mother exposing to Him "the breasts that He has sucked." All this is done only to exalt the Mother, as more gracious and more compassionate than her glorious Son.

Father of all! in every age,In every clime ador'd,By saint, by savage, and by sage,Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!

The 'economy' became a god such as never before, and a happy, successful society was one that could please this god - sometimes by sacrificing beautiful things - to keep the deity from getting angry and harming the people by withdrawing favours.

Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.

Seven is the magic figure, because that's a symbolic figure of my favorite deity, Ogun.

According to Norse legend, peas arrived on earth as a punishment sent by the god Thor who, in a fit of pique, dispatched a flight of dragons with peas in their talons to fill up the wells of his unsatisfactory worshippers.