Quotes About Deity

A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism.

Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky.

Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.

If I had a religion, its deity would be Audysseus, the sound God, and He would be a vengeful god, dishing out eternal damnation to people with cheap stage monitors.

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.

the fastest-growing brand of religion is of the magical 'name it and claim it' variety, in which the deity exists only to meet one's immediate, self-identified needs.

Their position seems to be that their God is so great he doesn't even have to exist.

A god who becomes a man shows mercy.A man who becomes a god does not.

Respect the gods, but have as little to do with them as possible.

Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

A priest is not somebody who knows how to perform the rain dance and end the drought. A priest is somebody who knows how to justify why the rain dance failed, and why we must keep believing in our god even though he seems deaf to all our prayers.

Mineralmaster, Ninurta

Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your attachment to labeling yourself and your cherishing of your identity, you can be virtually anybody. You can slip in and out of different shells, even different animal forms or deity forms.

The ultimate profanity is to invoke any deity in support of death or destruction in any form, particularly war.

A creator who no longer remembered the creation: Wasn't that the definition of a god?

Few of us realize the extent to which our notions of the deity are informed by patriarchal assumptions. We claim that God is raceless and genderless, yet we visualize God as white and male to such a degree that the very notion of a black, female God is enough to raise guffaws in response to a hardy, perennial joke.

Redemption, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned. The doctrine of Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religions, and whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.

For Jews, Jesus is unnecessary or a redundancy; he is not needed to save from sin or from death, since Judaism proclaims a deity ready to forgive repentant sinners and since it asserts that "all Israel has a share in the world to come" (Mishnah Sanhedrin 10:1).

The true master knows that if he had a God he could understand, he would never hold Him to be God.

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

To pray is to have a conversation with Deity. This sacred and supernal communication with Heavenly Father is a divine and delicate process. This crucial communication should be conducted with great care and in compliance with sacred counsel.

Setebos, Setebos, and Setebos!'Thinketh, He dwelleth i' the cold o' the moon.