Quotes About Divinity

Yahweh was, among many other things, an allegorist.

Then the gods realized they must create substitutes for themselves: men. But how? For them to be truly alive, a god must die.

If we understood everything, we would be like God.

Einstein himself said that "God doesn't play dice with the universe." What is the source of this pattern? Why is the world so beautiful? It could so easily be otherwise: flowers could be ugly to us and still fulfil their own purpose. But they're not.

Yawe—the animate to be. I am, you are, s/he is. To speak of those possessed with life and spirit we must say yawe. By what linguistic confluence do Yahweh of the Old Testament and yawe of the New World both fall from the mouths of the reverent?

Immortality is for the gods. Frankly, I don't know how they stand it.

There was no ball of smoking incense, no cup of magic wine, and none of the other equipment essential to talk to God.

Only the saints would joke so about the gods, because it was either joke or scream, and they alone knew it was all the same to the gods.

I believe, she said slowly at last, that the tormented are very close to God. I'm sorry, Sergeant. He

You looked a god in the eyes and bore witness for me, by which alone I am preserved." She took a deep breath, through his mouth. "You looked a god in the eyes. And spoke for me. There is nothing in my power that I will ever refuse you, after that.

The gods have no hands in this world but ours.  If we fail Them, where then can They turn?

The gods...the gods may forgive much, to a truly penitent heart. Her smile grew bitter as desert brine. The gods may forgive Ista all day long. But if Ista does not forgive Ista, the gods may go hang themselves.

I think He accepts curses the way most gods accept prayers, really.

The gods have no hands but ours, they say." He held up his fingers and wiggled them.

Des said reluctantly at last, Pray to your god. He's the only other one in here besides us. Pen

Do not deny the gods. And they will not deny you.

Her smile grew bitter as desert brine. "The gods may forgive Ista all day long. But if Ista does not forgive Ista, the gods may go hang themselves.

We are Qazbalists not to prove the Bible is holy— we are Qabalists because everything is holy. —RABBI LAMED BEN CLIFFORD

The rest of the Sephiroth on the Tree of Life are merely aspects of this ONE.

we are not Qabalists to prove the Bible is holy—we are Qabalists because everything is holy.

For a while, O King, the gods had sought to solve the riddles of Time, for a while They made him Their slave, and Time smiled and obeyed his masters, for a while, O King, for a while. He that hath spared nothing hath not spared the gods, nor yet shall he spare thee.

No it's better not to make gods or demons smile: they don't laugh at the same jokes as us.

Then said the gods: "Let Us make one to seek, to seek and never to find out concerning the wherefore of the making of the gods." And They made by the lifting of Their hands, each god according to his sign, the Bright One with the flaring tail to seek from the end of the Worlds to the end of them again, to return again after a hundred years. Man, when thou seest the comet, know that another seeketh besides thee nor ever findeth out.

a God so holy we may not take his name into our mouths, whose nature is to be inapprehensible. . . . This is the grandest, purest concept of God, and one which story can do nothing with, which the human imagination constantly betrays [Our Dream of the Good God, Out of the Garden ].