Deities Quotes - Page 8

• In my personal view, a failure to discover unimagined objects and answer unasked questions, once HST functions properly, would indicate a lack of imagination in stocking the Universe on the part of the Deity.

  John N. Bahcall

  Failure, Science, Discovery

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• Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science.

  Mary Somerville

  Math, Unity, Logic

  Kathryn A. Neeley, Mary Somerville (2001). “Mary Somerville: Science, Illumination, and the Female Mind”, p.180, Cambridge University Press

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• No parent can consistently teach faith in Christ who profanes the name of Deity. Profanity is never heard in the well-ordered home. Swearing is a vice that bespeaks a low standard of breeding. Blasphemous exclamations drive out all spirit of reverence.

  David O. McKay

  Home, Names, Parent

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• There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief in a deity.

  Mel Gibson

  Order, People, Belief

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• The present is a powerful deity.
  [Ger., Die Gegenwart ist eine machtige Gottin.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Powerful, Today, Dies

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• Blasphemy: a law to protect an all-powerful, supernatural deity from getting its feelings hurt.

  Ricky Gervais

  Hurt, Powerful, Law

  FaceBook post by Ricky Gervais from Jan 07, 2015

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• As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules over the whole earth, maketh the clouds his chariot, and reigns above the waterfloods as a king.

  Annie Besant

  Kings, Numbers, Clouds

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.225, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Some said the original evil was the vacuum caused by the Fairy Queen Lurline leaving us alone here. When goodness removes itself, the space it occupies corrodes and becomes evil and maybe slpits apart and multiplies. So every evil thing is a sign of the absence of deity

  Gregory Maguire

  Queens, Space, Evil

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.82, Harper Collins

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• Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.

  Salman Rushdie

  Lying, Errors, Work Out

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• There is evidence for the deity of Jesus -- good, strong, historical , cumulative evidence; evidence to which an honest person can subscribe without committing intellectual suicide.

  John Stott

  Suicide, Jesus, Strong

  John Stott, Rick Warren (2012). “Basic Christianity, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition”, p.14, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Because the Christian God is not a lonely God, but rather a communion of three persons, faith leads human beings into the divine communion. One cannot, however, have a self-enclosed communion with the Triune God- a "foursome," as it were-- for the Christian God is not a private deity. Communion with this God is at once also communion with those others who have entrusted themselves in faith to the same God. Hence one and the same act of faith places a person into a new relationship both with God and with all others who stand in communion with God.

  Miroslav Volf

  Christian, Lonely, New Relationship

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• This is insane," I said blankly. "I'm the instrument of an all-powerful primordial deity's wave of chaos and destruction." "That's kind of extreme" said Dante jovially. "It's not like you work for Google or anything.

  Richelle Mead

  Powerful, Google, Insane

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• My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the ticking of a clock; for I lived like the Puri Indians, of whom it is said that "for yesterday, today, and tomorrow they have only one word, and they express the variety of meaning by pointing backward for yesterday forward for tomorrow, and overhead for the passing day." This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have been found wanting.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Flower, Yesterday, Bird

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Home, Wings, Suffering

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Burned”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• I cannot prove that gods do not exist. Nor can I prove that the world and everything in it was not created by an entity or entities in the distant past. But I can tell you that in the millennia we elves have studied nature, we have never witnessed an instance where the rules that govern the world have been broken. That is, we have never seen a miracle. Many events have defied our ability to explain, but we are convinced that we failed because we are still woefully ignorant about the universe and not because a deity altered the workings of nature.

  Christopher Paolini

  Past, Broken, Miracle

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• The Sufi saint Mazhar Jaan Jana of 18th century Delhi believed that the Quran condemns bowing before deities because in pre-Islamic idol worship stones were considered god. But Hindus pray to god through that idol, which is a reflection of god. In Vedas god is nirguna and nirankara, that is, he has no attributes and no shape, that is the real belief of Hindus. As Muslims visit graves, so Hindus worship idols.

  Asghar Ali Engineer

  Real, Islamic, Reflection

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!

  Lord Byron

  Mind, Clay, Delicacy

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• As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Nature, Men, Mind

  "Hegel's Philosophy of right".

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• Deities are invented by fallible and finite beings in the hope and desire to create immortal perfection; unfortunately, such deities only reflect their creators and inspire their followers to similar imperfections.

  L.E. Modesitt Jr.

  Perfection, Inspire, Desire

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• The greatest admission a human can make is that perhaps he does not have the intelligence, the vision, the grasp to fully understand the universe, and that perhaps no human ever will. To put it all down to some omnipotent deity is a cop-out. Factor in fairy tales of an afterlife and it becomes a comforting cop-out.

  Neal Asher

  Afterlife, Comforting, Vision

  Neal Asher (2009). “The Line of Polity”, p.261, Pan Macmillan

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• There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in his name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions…I'm for decency—period. I'm for anything and everything that bodes love and consideration for my fellow man. But when lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday—count me out.

  Frank Sinatra

  Sunday, Men, Blood

  Interview with Joe Hyams, Playboy magazine, February 1963.

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• What sort of power is it that really and truly renders the deity present? Human beings automatically think of God as someone who possesses and wields power. Jesus forces people to consider whether that deeply rooted conviction is true or not. In historical terms it is readily apparent that power, left to its own inertial tendencies, tends to be oppressive in fact. So it cannot be the ultimate meditation of God, though human beings might tend to think so

  Jon Sobrino

  Jesus, Thinking, People

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• Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating their little boys and girls, inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the Deity... and leading them in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system.

  Samuel Adams

  Girl, Christian, Men

  Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1778-1802”

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• May the same wonderworking Deity, who long since delivered the Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors and planted them in the promised land, whose Providential agency has lately been conspicuous in establishing these United States as an independent nation, still continue to water them with the dews of Heaven and to make the inhabitants of every denomination participate in the temporal and spiritual blessings of that people whose God is Jehovah.

  George Washington

  Spiritual, Independent, Blessing

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1837). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. V. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses”, p.186

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• Time is an ethereal and sometimes cruel goddess. In her relentless passing, she steals away our youth and vitality, often in ways that seem insignificant until we finally realize how much she has taken. Still, she is also a generous deity, who offers to replace what she has seized with a deeper wisdom and a clearer vision of life's enigmas. In this sense, time can be our most powerful ally-if we are patient enough.

  Michael Kelleher

  Inspirational, Powerful, Taken

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