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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• O unfathomable depth! O Deity eternal! O deep ocean! What more could You give me than to give me Yourself?

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Ocean, Giving, Depth

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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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• 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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• Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

  Epicurus

  God, Spiritual, Religious

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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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• Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.

  Max Beckmann

  Space, Infinite, Surround

  Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.302, University of Chicago Press

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• The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.

  William Robertson Smith

  Religion, Nations, Dissolution

  William Robertson Smith (2006). “The Old Testament in the Jewish Church: Twelve Lectures on Biblical Criticism”, p.272, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• When we become hollow bones there is no limit to what the Higher Powers can do in and through us in spiritual things.

  Frank Fools Crow

  Spiritual, Native American, Power

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• A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble a conception of the Deity to believe that he created a few original forms capable of self-development into other and needful forms, as to believe that he required a fresh act of creation to supply the voids caused by the action of his laws.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Self, Law

  Charles Darwin (1869). “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life”, p.417

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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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• 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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• 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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• A faithful friend is the true image of the Deity.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Friends, Faithful, Faithful Friends

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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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• 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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