Deities Quotes - Page 6

• As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity."

  Plutarch

  Men, Mind, Genius

  Platonic Questions, I. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• Economic man and the Calvinist Christian sing to each other like voices in a fugue. The Calvinist stands alone before an almost merciless God; no human agency can help him; his church is a means to political and social organization rather than a bridge to deity, for no priest can have greater knowledge of the divine way than he himself; no friend can console him - in fact, he should distrust all men; in the same fashion, Economic Man faces a merciless world alone and unaided, his hand against every other's.

  Lionel Trilling

  Christian, Fashion, Mean

  "Matthew Arnold". Book by Lionel Trilling, 1949.

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• The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as he was before he got religion, the other one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward.

  Mark Twain

  Two, People, Giving

  Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.442, Univ of California Press

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• The kenosis of the Son reveals the mystery of God who is Love. This gift of life is an extension of a mysterious exchange at the heart of the Deity. In God himself the One does not exclude the Other, it includes it. The Unity of God is so complete, so rich, that it is not solitude enclosed in itself, but rather the fullness of communion. And thereby, the source of all communion.

  Olivier Clement

  Heart, Son, Solitude

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• What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This mawky worm-bent tabernacle.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Smoking, Soul, Flesh

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.156, Pan Macmillan

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• Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity,
  Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify,
  Weary bodies refresh and mollify.

  Ovid

  Sleep, Insomnia, Soul

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• Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

  Mark Twain

  Good Luck, Luck, Return

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• Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity?

  John Stuart Mill

  Religion, Might, Moral

  John Stuart Mill (2008). “Three Essays on Religion”, p.114, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Mind, Experts

  Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.118, Univ of California Press

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• Without love a man is just a body, an empty temple without the deity. With love the deity arrives, the temple is no more empty. That's why love gives such fullness, such deep contentment, such tremendously overflowing joy. Remain in love and let love be the door to the divine.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Men, Doors

  Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Osho (1984). “You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet: Initiation Talks Between Master and Disciple”, Osho International Foundation

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• Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force, and enacted a code of laws for their government ... the real priest will then be, not the mouth-piece of some pretended deity, but the interpreter of nature.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  God, Real, Ignorance

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1873). “An Oration on the Gods”, p.31

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• Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Uplifting, War, People

  "Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography".

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• Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments, that I had rather see the opinions of Confucius or Mahomed inculcated upon our youth than see them grow up wholly devoid of a system of religious principles.

  Benjamin Rush

  Education, Religious, Growing Up

  Benjamin Rush (1806). “Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical ...”, p.8

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• With respect to public acknowledgment of religious belief, it is entirely clear from our nation's historical practices that the Establishment Clause permits this disregard of polytheists and believers in unconcerned deities, just as it permits the disregard of devout atheists.

  Antonin Scalia

  Religious, Atheist, Practice

  Antonin Scalia (2016). “Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents”, p.147, Regnery Publishing

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• Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true to consider him created from animals.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Humble, Men

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• The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of many cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man; for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent deity.

  Charles Darwin

  Powerful, Believe, Men

  Charles Darwin (2015). “The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality”, p.542, 谷月社

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• Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.

  Pliny the Elder

  Sympathy, Suicide, Men

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• Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  God, Nature, Science

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.14, Library of Alexandria

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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 Agassiz

  Science, Men, Order

  Louis Agassiz (1863). “Methods of Study in Natural History”, p.4, Ayer Company Pub

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• I picture the evidence for the deity of Jesus to be like the fast-moving current in a river. To deny the data would be like swimming upstream against the current. That doesn't make sense. What's logical, based on the strength of the case for Christ, is to swim in the same direction the evidence is pointing by putting your trust in Jesus as your forgiver and leader.

  Lee Strobel

  Jesus, Moving, Swimming

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause

  David Hume

  Believe, Passion, Restless

  David Hume (1793). “An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.595

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• As a child, what I was missing was so much bigger to me than what I had. My mother-mythic, imaginary-was a deity and a superhero and a comfort all at once. If only I'd had her, surely, she would have been the answer to every problem; if only I'd had her , she would have been the cure for everything that ever had gone wrong in my life.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Children, Superhero

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.521, Simon and Schuster

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• Your woman wears underwear out in public,” Sabin said. “Must be nice. How’d you manage that little miracle?” “Only the Deity knows.

  Gena Showalter

  Nice, Miracle, Underwear

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Surrender”, p.104, HQN Books

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• Why does anyone do anything? Belief. A belief that they are right and just in their actions. Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son, Isaac, because he believed that God had commanded it. To kill your son is unthinkable. A crime. But if you are acting in the belief that your God, your supreme deity whom you must obey, has demanded it of you, is it still a crime?

  Libba Bray

  Son, Sacrifice, Acting

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• There's a reason cats were near deity in ancient Egypt. Dogs may be loyal, but cats are smart. This one must recognize our bond. You can take the cat ouf of Egypt, but you can't take Egypt out of the cat. Wow, I should have that embroidered on a pillow or something.

  Kiersten White

  Dog, Smart, Cat

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