Deities Quotes - Page 18

• In the interests of everyone the artist had a responsibility to use his medium well. In the Tibetan culture, most of the paintings are of deities or Buddhas, and they try to send a message of the value of the spiritual.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Artist

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• The deity of Christ is the key doctrine of the scriptures. Reject it, and the Bible becomes a jumble of words without any unifying theme. Accept it, and the Bible becomes an intelligible and ordered revelation of God in the person of Jesus Christ.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Jesus, Keys, Doctrine

  St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set”, p.763, Moody Publishers

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• In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that disguise their divinity. They show up in robes, rags, silver sashes, or with muddy feet. They show up with skin dark as old wood, or in scales made of rose petal, as a frail child, as a lime-yellow old woman, as a man who cannot speak, or as an animal who can. The great powers are testing to see if humans have yet learned to recognize the greatness of soul in all its varying forms.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Children, Heart, Dark

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• An atheist's laugh 's a poor exchange For Deity offended!

  Robert Burns

  Atheist, Laughter, Laughing

  'Epistle to a Young Friend' (1786) st. 9

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• All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of the Deity housed in our bodies

  Josephus

  Spiritual, Forever, Soul

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• The idea that any personal deity could find pleasure or profit in torturing a poor woman, by accident, with a fiendish cruelty known to man only in perverted and insane temperaments, could not be held for a moment. For pure blasphemy, it made pure atheism a comfort.

  Henry Adams

  Men, Ideas, Atheism

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1519, Open Road Media

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• The two greatest works of war mythology in the west ... are the Iliad and the Old Testament... When we turn from the Iliad and Athens to Jerusalem and the Old Testament we find a single-minded single deity with his sympathies forever on one side. And the enemy, accordingly, no matter who it may be, is handled... pretty much as though he were subhuman: not a "Thou" but an "It."

  Joseph Campbell

  War, Two, Forever

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• The Republicans hardly need a party and the cumbersome cadre of low-level officials that form one; they have a bankroll as large as the Pentagon's budget, dozens of fatted PACs, and the well-advertised support of the Christian deity.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Christian, Party, Support

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• My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.

  George Eliot

  Sky, Childhood, Sorrow

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• Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity.

  James G. Frazer

  Israel, Law, Atheism

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• If I could have my way I would place the Deity on half-pay as the Government of this Country did the subaltern officers.

  George Holyoake

  Country, Government, Atheism

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• He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Soul, Atheism, Armor

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• Christ, by highest heaven adored. Christ, the everlasting Lord, Late in time behold Him come, Offspring of a virgin's womb. Veiled in flesh the Godhead see, Hail the incarnate Deity! Pleased as Man with man to dwell; Jesus, our Immanuel!

  Charles Wesley

  Jesus, Men, Heaven

  Charles Wesley (1889). “Hark! the Herald Angels Sing”

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• The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth; where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every subjugated passion, "like the wind and storm, fulfilling his word.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Passion, Men, Wind

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.36

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• Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Hands, Firsts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1838). “An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday Evening, 15 July, 1838”, p.27

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• By day, or on a cloudless night, a pilot may drink the wine of the gods, but it has an earthly taste; he's a god of the earth, like one of the Grecian deities who lives on worldly mountains and descended for intercourse with men. But at night, over a stratus layer, all sense of the planet may disappear. You know that down below, beneath that heavenly blanket is the earth, factual and hard. But it's an intellectual knowledge; it's a knowledge tucked away in the mind; not a feeling that penetrates the body.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Wine, Night, Men

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• I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.

  Norman Douglas

  Imagination, Weakness, Cosmos

  Norman Douglas (1982). “South Wind”, p.219, Courier Corporation

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