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Quotes About Divinity

you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God and that Satan is simply God's child, and that we are God's children also. There are no children of Satan, really.
~ Anne Rice
Evil is a point of view. God kills, indiscriminately, and so shall we. He takes the richest and the poorest, as so shall we, for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves
~ Anne Rice
The Maker offers us creation itself as proof of his greatness.
~ Anne Rice
God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are none so like him as ourselves.
~ Anne Rice
Is that the proof, Almighty God, that you are not there, that your saints could be such petty demons?
~ Anne Rice
Consequently,if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God's child, & that we are God's children also. There are no children of Satan ,really.
~ Anne Rice
He might have been made by God to he painted by Andrea del Santo, so delicately perfect did be seen.
~ Anne Rice
I believe a single god waits for us beyond the dark
~ Anne Rice
But truly, who has greater power than the god of death?
~ Anne Rice
Did you ever think how conceited those Oriental rug weavers are, to believe they have to try and make a mistake so as not to compete with God? Like they would have done it perfectly otherwise, if they hadn't forced themselves to mess it up?
~ Anne Tyler
Our interpreting the universe as an artifact absolutely requires that we posit an author for it, or a celestial fimmaker, dramatist, painter, sculptor, composer, architect, or choreographer. And no one has been willing openly to posit such an artist for the universe since the American transcedentalists and before them the Medieval European philosophers.
~ Annie Dillard
It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator--our very self-consciousness--is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.
~ Annie Dillard
For us Christians God is inconceivable, incomprehensible, indescribable, and immaterial, as St. Basil the Great says.
~ Seraphim Rose
Whosoever comes to me, through whatsoever form, I reach him; all men are struggling through paths which in the end lead to me.
~ Shashi Tharoor
Hinduism professes no false certitudes. Its capacity to express wonder at Creation and simultaneously scepticism about the omniscience of the Creator are unique to Hinduism. Both are captured beautifully in this verse from the 3,500-year-old Rig Veda, the Nasadiya Sukta or Creation Hymn:
~ Shashi Tharoor
for many in India, he said, God will only appear as a loaf of bread.
~ Shashi Tharoor
Only fools insist upon life at any cost.... Others would say that life may be laid down when it becomes too heavy. Where does it go, after all, but into the keeping of the Powers who gave it and will give it once again?
~ Sheri S. Tepper
Many humans prefer tiny gods," said the Gardener. "Tiny gods of limited preoccupations…
~ Sheri S. Tepper
Is God a man or a woman? God could be an armadillo. I have no idea.
~ Sherman Alexie
Then I remember that God is really, really old. So maybe God has God arthritis. And maybe that's why the world sucks. Maybe God's hands and fingers don't work as well as they used to.
~ Sherman Alexie
Ever wonder why the gods created man, Grom? I personally think that we're the original reality show. They were so effing bored that they created us just so that they could feel better about themselves
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
My name is all but lost to antiquity while his legend is told and retold around the world. Yet I am a god and he is nothing but a bastard seed not even fit to inhabit Olympus. (Priapus) Get your hands off her, you worthless footnote. You're not fit to wipe her shoes. (Julian)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I can't believe you cheated! (Phobos) I can't believe you didn't know it. Man, what kind of god are you? I never knew stupidity had a divine representative. Guess I was wrong, huh? (Deimos)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I am not a god of forgiveness. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon