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• I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience.

  George Washington

  Religious, Men, Liberty

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1838). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.155

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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 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 on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet.

  Plato

  Purpose, Miserable, Poet

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• Why seek the Deity further? Whatever we see is God, and wherever we go.

  Lucan

  God

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• A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.

  Daniel Webster

  Happiness, Morning, Light

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1853). “Works: with a Biographical Memoir”, p.105

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• The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago-and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since-is no one to consult on questions of ethics.

  Sam Harris

  Names, Middle East, Desert

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.172, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

  Voltaire

  Atheist, Men

  Voltaire (1769). “Letters addressed to his Highness the Prince of *****, containing comments on the writings of the most eminent authors, who have been accused of attacking the Christian Religion”, p.51

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• How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, how complicate, how wonderful is man! Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from nothing to the Deity! Dim miniature of greatness absolute! An heir of glory! A frail child of dust! Helpless immortal! Insect infinite! A worm! A God!

  Edward Young

  Children, Greatness, Men

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”

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• Distinguisht Link in Being's endless Chain!
  Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

  Edward Young

  Science, Links, Evolution

  Edward Young (1743). “The complaint, or, Night-thoughts on life, death, & immortality”, p.15

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• The emotional aspects of a wilderness experience might be compared to a religious experience. It is particularly valuable for those people whose unconscious associations of pain and discomfort in relationships to man render a deity in human form impossible. Christianity is unacceptable to some people because of the use of the human symbol, but some who can't accept Christ can gain a tremendous sense of peace from relating to uncontaminated areas.

  Donald Glover

  Religious, Pain, Men

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• "God save our gracious Queen": Why would we invoke a non-specific deity to bail out these unelected spongers?

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Queens, Humor

  "Part Troll". Documentary, Comedy, Music, 2004.

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• But we must not forget, this ritual expressed, certain ideas which lie at the very root of true religion, the fellowship of the worshippers with one another in their fellowship with the deity, and the consecration of the bonds of kinship as the type of all right ethical relations between man and man.

  William Robertson Smith

  Religious, Lying, Men

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• Even Ramanama is by itself lifeless, but it has become a living symbol of the deity because millions of people have consecrated it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  People, Rama, Lifeless

  Mahatma Gandhi (1960). “Writings and Speeches of Mahatma Gandhi Relating to Bihar, 1917-1947”

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• For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Rama

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “My Picture of Free India”

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• If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Titles, Function

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

  Edward Young

  Science, Evolution, Midway

  Edward Young (1851). “Night thoughts on life, death and immortality: With a memoir of the author, a critical view of his writings, and explanatory notes”, p.77

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• How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

  Edward Young

  Men, August, Wonderful

  Edward Young (1821). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality”, p.9

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• For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity. I acknowledge no other God but the one God of truth and righteousness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Rama, Righteousness

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “My Picture of Free India”

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• Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.

  Herman Melville

  Brother, Ocean, Keys

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.9

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• The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are biological kin, not resources; or if the planet is our mother, not an opportunity -- then we will treat each other with greater respect. Thus is the challenge, to look at the world from a different perspective.

  David Suzuki

  Mother, Nature, Opportunity

  "Why land rights for indigenous peoples could be the answer to climate change" by Bruce Parry, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2016.

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• ...for the question is of will, and not, as the insanity of logic has assumed of power.  It is not that the Deity cannot modify his laws, but that we insult him in imagining a possible necessity for modification.  In their origin these laws were fashioned to embrace all contingencies which could lie in the future.  With God all is Now.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Lying, Law, Insanity

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.60, Wordsworth Editions

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• The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Self, Solitude

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.91, Penguin

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• What you do with your life is ascribing more to what you invest your time in. If you spend a lot of time on your phone, you're ascribing more worship to that. Anything can become, by that definition, some form of idol or deity or ultimate worth in your life.

  Jon Foreman

  Phones, Idols, Definitions

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• Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Green Fields, May

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.4044, Delphi Classics

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