Deities Quotes

• My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Spiritual, Children, People

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• God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  God, Believe, Doe

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.

  Frank Sinatra

  Sunday, Religion, Cash

  Interview with Joe Hyams in Playboy, February 1963.

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• Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dog, Literature, World

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.48, 谷月社

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• Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Patriotic, Wealth, Prosperity

  1928 Speech, Boston, 11 Jun.

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• We are not on this planet to ask forgiveness of our deities.

  Scott Cunningham

  Paganism, Asking For Forgiveness, Planets

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• Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

  Chapman Cohen

  Spiritual, Religious, Atheist

  "An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism" by Gordon Stein, Prometheus Books, (p. 258), 1980.

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• Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Wine, Drunk

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.17, 谷月社

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• In the course of time one does not feel even the existence of God. After attaining enlightenment one sees that gods and deities are all Maya.

  Sarada Devi

  Enlightenment, Doe, Existence

  "Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations" by Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, (p. 297), 2004.

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• Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Respect, Irreverence

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.190, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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.

  Victor Hugo

  Beauty, Humanity, Religion

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• Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope for your freedom until you once more believe in your own concept of the 'deity.'

  John Henrik Clarke

  Believe, Ugly, Release

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• I am all deities in one. You may endeavour your best for thousands of years and have all mankind with you in your search. But you cannot understand My Reality.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Reality, Years, May

  "Sathyam Sivam Sundaram, Volume 3". Book by N. Kasthuri, October 21, 2014.

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• The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Study, Relation

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9101, Delphi Classics

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• Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

  Honore de Balzac

  Children, Literature, Sovereign

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.172, The Floating Press

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• Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

  Francis Bacon

  Character, Men, Mind

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.462

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• That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Office, Creative, Parent

  Charles Alexander Eastman, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (2007). “The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World”, p.9, World Wisdom, Inc

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• Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Becoming, Activity

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.199, Penguin

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• When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.

  Mark Twain

  Religion, Atheism, Knows

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.222, Courier Corporation

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• Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.

  John Ruskin

  Blue, Color, Delight

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1872). “The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion, Selected from the Works of John Ruskin”, p.414

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• A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dog, Mean, World

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• We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Believe, Practice, Understanding

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• I sacrifice to no god save myself - And to my belly, greatest of deities.

  Euripides

  God, Food, Sacrifice

  "Cyclops". Play by Euripides, circa 424-423 BCE.

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• NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Believe, Preparation, Secret

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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• MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hero, People, Body

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.148, 谷月社

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