Deities Quotes - Page 7

• And yet this same Deity says to me, resist not evil; pray for those that despitefully use you; love your enemies, but I will eternally damn mine. It seems to me that even gods should practice what they preach.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love You, Practice, Evil

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2122, Library of Alexandria

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• With pantheism...the deity is associated with the order of nature or the universe itself...when modern scientists such as Einstein and Stephen Hawking mention 'God' in their writing, this is what they seem to mean: that God is Nature.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Mean, Writing, Order

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• Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the Deity.

  Isaac Watts

  Men, Rocks, Two

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• My joy is in your freedom, not your compliance. I do not want your worship, I do not need your obedience, and it is not necessary for you to serve me. Deity has no needs. "All that is" is exactly that: all that is. It therefore wants or lacks nothing, by definition.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Joy, Needs, Definitions

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• If all that you see, do, measure and discover is the will of a deity, then ideas can never be proven wrong, you have no predictive power, and you are at a loss to understand the principles behind most of the fundamental interconnections of nature.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Religious, Science, Loss

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• The miracle stories of the New Testament can no longer be interpreted in a post-Newtonian world as supernatural events performed by an incarnate deity.

  John Shelby Spong

  Miracle, Religion, Atheism

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• I use the Scriptures, not as an arsenal to be resorted to only for arms and weapons, but as a matchless temple, where I delight to be, to contemplate the beauty, the symmetry, and the magnificence of the structure, and to increase my awe, and excite my devotion to the Deity there preached and adored.

  Robert Boyle

  Bible, Use, Delight

  Robert Boyle (1835). “Treatises on the High Veneration Man's Intellect Owes to God...”, p.158

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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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• 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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• A deity who remains silent and invisible should not get angry or surprised at doubt of his reality.

  Graham Kendall

  Reality, Doubt, Invisible

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• Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.

  William Cowper

  Men, Insanity, Mouths

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.23

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• I think [religion] is presumptuous and I think it is silly, because it makes you believe that you are less than what you can be. As long as you can blame everything on some unseen deity, you don’t ever have to be responsible for your own behavior.

  Harlan Ellison

  Believe, Silly, Thinking

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• People who need to believe in deities can find them everywhere they look.

  Graham Kendall

  Believe, People, Needs

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• Uplifting traditions . . . that promote love for Deity and unity in families and among people are especially important.

  Donald L. Hallstrom

  Love, Uplifting, People

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• Man, like Deity, creates in his own image.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Self

  Elbert Hubbard (2012). “Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors”, p.86, tredition

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• But if you miss it, you will next be confronted with the angry deities, ... threatening you and barring your passage ... because you turned a deaf ear to the saving truths of religion. All these forms are strange to you, ... they terrify you, ... and yet it is you who have created them. Do not give in to your fright, ... flee them not! They are but ... the contents of your own mind... If at this point you should manage to understand that, ... and you will find yourself in a paradise among the angels.

  Gautama Buddha

  Book, Angel, Giving

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• Maybe there are only atheists in foxholes. If the faithful truly and fully believe in a protective deity, why would they dive into a foxhole to protect themselves from the bullets whizzing by ? A part of their brain knows damn well that if they do not protect themselves, the bullets will hardly discriminate between those who claim faith and those who reject it.

  J. Anderson Thomson

  Atheist, Believe, Faithful

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• There are many doors to goodness. (Saying) 'glory to God,' 'praise be to God,' 'there is no deity but God,' enjoining good, forbidding evil, removing harm from the road, listening to the deaf (until you understand them), leading the blind, guiding one to the object of his need, hurrying with the strength of one's legs to one in sorrow who is asking for help, and supporting the weak with the strength of one's arms - all of these are (forms of) charity prescribed for you.

  Muhammad

  Positive, Asking For Help, Doors

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• The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It contains a mixture of inconsistency and contradiction; to call which the word of God, is the highest pitch of extravagance: it is to attribute to the deity that which any person of common sense would blush to confess himself the author of.

  Elihu Palmer

  Common Sense, Religion, Obscurity

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• A supreme deity would no more gift us with intellect and expect us to forsake it in moments of bafflement, than He would fashion us eyes to see and bid us shut them to the stars

  Terryl L. Givens

  Fashion, Stars, Eye

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• The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity.

  George Herbert

  Benefits, Arguing, Constancy

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.353

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• A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.

  Donny Osmond

  Mean, Important, Suggestions

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• Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Religious, People, Needs

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• Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.

  Leonard Cohen

  Affirmation, Worship, Tradition

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• The second thing I wrote down that day was that exclusive male imagery of the Divine not only instilled an imbalance within human consciousness, it legitimized patriarchal power in the culture at large. Here alone is enough reason to recover the Divine Feminine, for there is a real and undeniable connection between the repression of the feminine in our deity and the repression of women.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Real, Divine Feminine, Males

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