quotes about Deities
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This sense of wonder leads most scientists to a Superior Being - der Alte, the Old One, as Einstein affectionately called the Deity - a Superior Intelligence, the Lord of all Creation and Natural Law.
-- Abdus SalamSource : Abdus Salam, H. R. Dalafi (1994). “Renaissance of Sciences in Islamic Countries”, p.139, World Scientific
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Death is the inseparable antecedent of life; the seed dies in order to produce the plant, and earth itself is rent asunder and dies at the birth of Dionusos. Hence the significancy of the phallus, or of its inoffensive substitute, the obelisk, rising as an emblem of resurrection by the tomb of buried Deity at Lerna or at Sais.
-- Albert Pike -
Notwithstanding the poverty of my outside experience, I have always had a significance for myself, and every chance to stumle along my straight and narrow little path, and to worship at the feet of my Deity, and what more can a human soul ask for?
-- Alice James -
Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.
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As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
-- Bayard TaylorSource : Bayard Taylor (2015). “The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain”, p.67, The Floating Press
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When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.
-- Ben Okri -
The principle of love within us is an attribute of the Deity, and it is placed within us to be dispensed independently according to our own will.
-- Brigham Young -
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
Brethren, the Deity was not revealed to gratify our curiosity, or to increase our pride of intellect, but to bring us into relations of affection, submission, and communion with Him.
-- Edward Norris KirkSource : Edward Norris Kirk (1857). “Discourses: Doctrinal and Practical”, p.25
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Man, like Deity, creates in his own image.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
"Out, damned spot!" That is the true cry of human nature. That stain cannot be removed without blood and that which is infinitely more, and deeper, and profounder, and more terrible than blood, of which blood is but the symbol - the suffering of Deity.
-- G. Campbell Morgan -
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Sienna, meet Zacharel. He's a warrior angel for the One, True Deity. Zacharel, meet Sienna. She's mine.
-- Gena Showalter -
It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given the best morsel, to be remembered, to be praised, to be obeyed blindly and punctiliously - these have been thought points of honor with the gods.
-- George Santayana -
A deity who remains silent and invisible should not get angry or surprised at doubt of his reality.
-- Graham Kendall -
Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity.
-- H. P. Blavatsky -
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Unbroken Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one -- except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a safe, conservative practical, thoroughly Common-Law deity.
-- Henry Adams -
There is no such thing as privacy between a deity and his worshipper. There are no secrets, no glossed-over failures. Only promises kept and abandoned, sins committed and imagined, and raw emotion. How many of us are ready to have our lives judged? What would happen if we were found wanting?
-- Ilona Andrews -
Prayers aren't for the deity...They're for you, to recommit yourself to what you believe.
-- James A. Owen -
The heavens are nobly eloquent of the Deity, and the most magnificent heralds of their Maker's praise.
-- James HerveySource : James Hervey, William ROMAINE (1812). “Meditations and Contemplations ... To which is prefixed the life of the author: and a sermon on his death by the Rev. W. Romaine ... With ... engravings, etc. [With a portrait.]”, p.284
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Analysis is carried into everything. Even Deity is subjected to chemical tests.
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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.'
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No doubt the testimony of natural reason, on whatever exercised, must, of necessity, stop short of those truths which it is the object of revelation to make known; still it places the existence and personal attributes of the Deity on such grounds as to render doubts absurd and atheism ridiculous.
-- John Herschel -
The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.
-- Joseph Addison -
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I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic Church.
-- Katie Holmes -
It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.
-- Lawrence KasdanSource : Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas (1994). “Star Wars: The Screenplay. Return of the Jedi”
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The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must change a monkey into a man.
-- Louis AgassizSource : Louis Agassiz (1863). “Methods of Study in Natural History”, p.4, Ayer Company Pub
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by getting as close to the true idea of religion, of spirituality as it is possible for us to get.. .. we would be in possession of the only tangible relationship tot the deity in things.
-- Marsden HartleySource : "Marsden Hartley". Book by Gail R. Scott, p. 44, 1988.
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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 -
Truly disappointment is the guardian deity of human life; she sits at the threshold of unborn time, and marshals the events as they come forth.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -
Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.
-- Max BeckmannSource : 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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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 -
Life and the Universe show spontaneity;Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;Truth must be sought with the Positivists.
-- Mortimer CollinsSource : Mortimer Collins, F. Percy Cotton (1886). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Mortimer Collins”
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One of the most amazing revelations of God comes to us when we learn that it is in the everyday things of life that we realize the magnificent deity of Jesus Christ.
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Here Jove with Hermes came; but in disguise Of mortal men conceal'd their deities; One laid aside his thunder, one his rod
-- Ovid -
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There is a deity within us who breathes that divine fire by which we are animated.
-- Ovid -
There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.
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God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.
-- R. C. Sproul -
Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
-- Richard Brinsley SheridanSource : Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Leigh Hunt (1846). “The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: With a Biographical and Critical Sketch”, p.145
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To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen.
-- Richard LewontinSource : "Billions and Billions of Demons". www.nybooks.com. January 9, 1997.
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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 -
We are not on this planet to ask forgiveness of our deities.
-- Scott Cunningham -
O unfathomable depth! O Deity eternal! O deep ocean! What more could You give me than to give me Yourself?
-- St. Catherine of Siena -
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The Saturnian Spirit, Satan...ensouls the...Primary Ray of Deity.
-- Vera Stanley Alder -
Physical science has taught us to associate Deity with the normal rather than with the abnormal.
-- William Edward Hartpole Lecky -
The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.
-- William Robertson SmithSource : 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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The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity.
-- William Rounseville Alger -
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All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in Him again.
-- Zoroaster -
Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent.
-- C. A. BartolSource : C. A. Bartol (1855). “Pictures of Europe, Framed in Ideas”, p.36
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Fabricating answers to unanswerable questions is the domain of religion. A deity model is not the default alternative to a scientific mystery.
-- Graham Kendall -
Why seek the Deity further? Whatever we see is God, and wherever we go.
-- Lucan -