Deities Quotes - Page 3

• Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Islands, Practice, Giving

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.4473, Simon and Schuster

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• Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Ambition, Proud, Sovereign

  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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• I have heard of that idea [i.e., of Haile Selassie being the reincarnation of Jesus Christ]. I also met certain Rastafarians. I told them clearly that I am a man, that I am mortal, and that...they should never make a mistake in assuming or pretending that the human being is emanated from a deity.

  Haile Selassie

  Mistake, Men, Ideas

  "Transform Your World Through the Powers of Your Mind" by Jawara D. King, (p. 295), 2009.

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• 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

  Disappointment, Events, Guardian

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1833). “The Last Man”, p.42

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• 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

  Feet, Soul, Littles

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• I fear that many of us rush about from day to day taking for granted the Holy Scriptures. We scramble to honor appointments with physicians, lawyers, and businessmen. Yet we think nothing of postponing interviews with Deity postponing scripture study. Little wonder we develop anemic souls and lose our direction in living. How much better it would be if we planned and held sacred fifteen or twenty minutes a day for reading the scriptures. Such interviews with Deity would help us recognize his voice and enable us to receive guidance in all of our affairs.

  Carlos E. Asay

  Reading, Thinking, Voice

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• Sleep, thou repose of all things; sleep, thou gentlest of the deities; thou peace of the mind, from which care flies; who doest soothe the hearts of men wearied with the toils of the day, and refittest them for labor.

  Ovid

  Heart, Sleep, Men

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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

  Doubt, Atheism, Ridiculous

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• Through heaven and earth
  God's will moves freely, and I follow it,
  As color follows light. He overflows
  The firmamental walls with deity,
  Therefore with love; His lightnings go abroad,
  His pity may do so, His angels must,
  Whene'er He gives them charges.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Wall, Moving, Angel

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “The Poetical Works of”, p.28

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• The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

  Joseph Addison

  God, Perfection, Moral

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• He that despairs degrades the Deity, and seems to intimate that He is insufficient, or not just to His word; and in vain hath read the scriptures, the world, and man.

  Owen Feltham

  Men, Despair, Scripture

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• The heavens are nobly eloquent of the Deity, and the most magnificent heralds of their Maker's praise.

  James Hervey

  Sky, Heaven, Praise

  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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• "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

  Blood, Suffering, Cry

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• the fastest-growing brand of religion is of the magical 'name it and claim it' variety, in which the deity exists only to meet one's immediate, self-identified needs.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Self, Names, Needs

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2008). “Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation”, Granta Books (UK)

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• For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any book, however fair, is set before them, though they perceive that there is something written, are scarcely able to make out two consecutive words, but, when aided by glasses, begin to read distinctly, so Scripture, gathering together the impressions of Deity, which, till then, lay confused in our minds, dissipates the darkness, and shows us the true God clearly.

  John Calvin

  Confused, Book, Two

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.33, Lulu.com

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• Perhaps the individual is so viable a god because he can actually understand the ceremonial significance of the way he is treated, and quite on his own can respond dramatically to what is proffered him. In contacts between such deities there is no need for middlemen; each of these gods is able to serve as his own priest.

  Erving Goffman

  Needs, Able, Way

  Erving Goffman (2005). “Interaction Ritual: Essays in Face to Face Behavior”, p.95, AldineTransaction

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• Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Inspire, Mind, Superstitions

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• We may imitate the Deity in all His attributes; but mercy is the only one in which we can pretend to equal Him. We cannot, indeed, give like God; but surely we may forgive like Him.

  Laurence Sterne

  Giving, May, Mercy

  Laurence Sterne (1790). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Complete in Eight Volumes”, p.146

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• Father-Mother is the name for Deity.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Mother, Father, Names

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.399, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Fashion is a capricious deity.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Fashion, Capricious

  Mary Russell Mitford (1859). “Recollections of a literary life ... Second edition”, p.297

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• This organ deserves to be styled the starting point of life and the sun of our microcosm just as much as the sun deserves to be styled the heart of the world. For it is by the heart's vigorous beat that the blood is moved, perfected, activated, and protected from injury and coagulation. The heart is the tutelary deity of the body, the basis of life, the source of all things, carrying out its function of nourishing, warming, and activating body as a whole. But we shall more fittingly speak of these matters when we consider the final cause of this kind of movement.

  William Harvey

  Heart, Blood, Finals

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• Be not afraid, though every stay
  Should fail, or be removed away,
  And thou be stript of all;
  But lose thyself in that vast sea,
  The ocean of the Deity,
  And all they cares shall fall.
  
  In death which is the most profound,
  The purest life is always found;
  Then, blindly, all forego!
  He ne're shall find, who will not lose;
  Who sinks from self, shall gain repose,
  Which none but he can know.

  Gerhard Tersteegen

  Ocean, Fall, Self

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• There is a spirit of resistance implanted by the Deity in the breast of man, proportioned to the size of the wrongs he is destined to endure.

  Charles James Fox

  Men, Resistance, Size

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• All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in Him again.

  Zoroaster

  Flow, Godliness

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• I can never acknowledge the right of slavery. I will bow down to no deity however worshipped by professing Christians - however dignified by the name of the Goddess of Liberty, whose footstool is the crushed necks of the groaning millions, and who rejoices in the resoundings of the tyrant's lash, and the cries of his tortured victims.

  Thaddeus Stevens

  Christian, Names, Tyrants

  "Shapers of the Great Debate on the Civil War: A Biographical Dictionary". Book by Dan Monroe and Bruce Tap, p. 255, 2005.

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