Quotes About Deification

humans sometimes could be elevated to the ranks of those gods.

Augustus was deified and called "divine

is perhaps best to think of the Senate recognizing a divine figure who had been in their midst rather than making someone divine.

The soviets were terrified of God. … The less a government deifies itself, the more it should be respected.

An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man becomes familiar with his goddess she quickly sinks into a woman.

No matter how toxic your parents might be, you still have a need to deify them. Even if you understand, on one level, that your father was wrong to beat you, you may still believe he was justified. Intellectual understanding is not enough to convince your emotions that you were not responsible.

The romanticization of nature was idol worship, he inveighed, the deification of the created over the Creator.

En todos los ocasos de la Humanidad ha surgido la tentación de endiosar a los animales: lo hicieron las civilizaciones bárbaras, de Egipto a Cartago, que imaginaron un panteón que era en realidad un zoológico amedrentador, poblado por alimañas; y lo volvieron a hacer las civilizaciones refinadas, cuando llegó su decrepitud

This has been an age in which we have humanized God and deified man, and we have worshipped at the throne of science

God's Incarnation opens the way to man's deification. To be deified is, more specifically, to be "christified": the divine likeness that we are called to attain is the likeness of Christ. It is through Jesus the God-man that we men are "ingodded", "divinized", made "sharers in the divine nature" (2 Pet. 1:4).

Nothing is so mischievous as the apotheosis of error.

Welcome , Ruin said, to godhood .

Things that become important to economies become ritualized and become deified. Because I'm Jewish, I always thought it was interesting that in Judaism, salt seals a bargain, particularly the covenant with God. Some people, when they bless bread, they dip it in salt. Same thing exists in Islam.

Whether the untamed, extravagant, disproportionate energy shows itself in sensuality—in abjectissimo loco—or in an overestimation and deification of the most highly developed function, it is at bottom the same: barbarism. But naturally one has no insight into this so long as one is still hypnotized by the object of the deed and ignores how it is done.

Misquoted, distorted, diluted, and deified. In that order. At the hands of his worshipers, Jesus suffered a far worse fate than crucifixion. You have a lovely ass.

God became man so that man might become a god.

God became man, that we might be gods.

GOD became man so that we in our turn may become God.

Man was never meant to be a god, but he is forever trying to deify himself.

Nostalgia for dead tyrants and the longing for heroes are unhealthy, and they can result in the deification of a Saddam as easily as a Havel or Mandela.

The trinity of gods that then followed was no other than a reduction of the former plurality, which was about twenty or thirty thousand: the statue of Mary succeeded the statue of Diana of Ephesus; the deification of heroes changed into the canonization of saints; the Mythologists had gods for everything; the Christian Mythologists had saints for everything; the church became as crowded with one, as the Pantheon had been with the other, and Rome was the place of both.

The mechanics of love imply some sort of bridge between the sensual and the spiritual, sometimes to the point of deification; the notion of an afterlife is implicit not only in our couplings, but also in our separations.

Deification of accidents serves of course as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.

The ancient [pagan] faith was diseased at the bottom and at the top. The deification of the emperors revealed not how much the upper classes thought of their rulers, but how little they thought of their gods.