Quotes About Deification

Twins were deified, and sacrificed, in a more savage culture: hypersimilitude was equivalent to the murder of the original, and thus to a pure non-meaning.

When Nero, with a casual quip, declared 'mushrooms to be the food of the gods, since it was by means of a mushroom that Claudius has become a god',66 it

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

The illness of deifying the boss is the illness of those who flatter their superiors hoping to get their goodwill. They are victims of careerism and opportunism, they honor people and not God.

God's curse de-deified the serpent, which was worshipped in many pagan societies, including the Egyptian, Sumerian, Hittite, and Canaanite. Throughout the Torah, the Torah seeks to undermine polytheism by dethroning the gods of the ancient world.

Deification dehumanizes women as much as its polar opposite, demonization. Both deny women their ordinary humanity.

Be persistent with your disturbance until you get face to face with the Lord himself. Don't deify common sense.

That men worshipped him like a god, but no one mourned.

Dear me! I must be turning into a god.

According to Suetonius, Vespasian continued his down-to-earth line in self-deprecating wit right up until his last words: 'Oh dear, I think I'm becoming a god …' The whole process of becoming, or not becoming, a god is the theme of a long skit probably written in the mid 50s CE by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

As Paul says in Romans, if you reject the biblical God, you will deify something within the created order.

Como Paulo diz em Romanos, se você rejeitar o Deus da Bíblia, irá deificar algo dentro da ordem criada. Aqueles que não honram ao Deus transcendente além do cosmos, devem divinizar algum poder ou princípio imanente que pertence ao cosmos.

Technopoly is a state of culture. It is also a state of mind. It consists in the deification of technology, which means that the culture seeks its authorization in technology, finds its satisfactions in technology, and takes its orders from technology.

To be deified is to enable God to be born in oneself. Dionysius the Areopagite Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, II, Intro. (PG 3,392)

And they began to shout, “This is the voice of a god, not a man!”