Gods Own Quotes

#1. Truly, we are the gods' own children, forged in the fire of our tortured pasts, but also blessed with unimaginable gifts.

R.L. LaFevers

#2. Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and the gods grow old along with the men that made them ... But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.

D.H. Lawrence

#3. Men have always formed gods in their own image.

W. Somerset Maugham

#4. We are all Gods or Demons- exerting the energy of will to squeeze the anarchic creativity of nature into our own image.

John Constantine

#5. Till Homer's ghost came whispering to my mind.He said: I made the Iliad from such
A local row. Gods make their own importance.

Patrick Kavanagh

#6. Man has rejected the revelation of the Bible concerning the true and living God of his fathers, and he has substituted gods of his own making. In actuality modern man has decided to dethrone God and enthrone himself in all of his nuclear glory.

Billy Graham

#7. There is something beyond. Though perhaps my belief is merely my own desire wishing it to be so."
"You are not encouraging me. Aren't You omnipotent?"
"Hardly," Harmony said, smiling. "But I believe that parts of me could be.

Brandon Sanderson

#8. It is when death is rendered graphically, is televised so to speak, that you sense an eerie separation between your condition and yourself. A network of symbols has been introduced, an entire awesome technology wrested from the gods. It makes you feel like a stranger in your own dying.

Don DeLillo

#9. When people let youd own, God will pick you up.

LeCrae

#10. The Igbo used to say that they built their own gods. They would come together as a community, and they would express a wish. And their wish would then be brought to a priest, who would find a ritual object, and the appropriate sacrifices would be made, and the shrine would be built for the god.

Chris Abani

#11. Our gods, if we choose to believe in them, must be forced to live up to ethics that far surpass our own human standards. If they fall short of the ethical conditions we place upon ourselves, what use are they to us - except to rationalize our own failures?

Stifyn Emrys

#12. Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods.

Emil Cioran

#13. Men create the gods after their own images.

Aristotle.

#14. We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins.

Andy Rooney

#15. Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form, but with regard to their mode of life.

Aristotle.

#16. Do not go to others for the answers. Look in your own heart, search your own faith. You will either find the answer or come to see that the answer is with the gods themselves, not with man.

Margaret Weis

#17. If there is one thing in this world that I was raised and trained to know, it is that there is only so much you may ask of the gods. Victory in battle is their lightest gift; a quiet heart is your own concern.

Peter S. Beagle

#18. I've turned down too many gods to
Start inventing my own now
Or believe in yours either.

Joanna McClure

#19. The change which the writing wrought in me (and of which I did not write) was only a beginning; only to prepare me for the gods' surgery. They used my own pen to probe my wound.

C.S. Lewis

#20. We create our own future by our own beliefs, which control our actions. A
strong enough belief system, a sufficiently powerful conviction, can make
anything happen. This is how we create our consensus reality, including our
gods.

Brian Herbert

#21. It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.

Homer

#22. Let him grow taller,she asked the gods.Let him know sixteen, and twenty, and fifty. Let him grow as tall as his father, and hold his own son in his arms. Please, please, please.

George R R Martin

#23. Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking.

Orson Scott Card

#24. We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities, and twisted meanings to suit our own ends. And in so doing, mayhap we reshaped the gods themselves. Now

Jacqueline Carey

#25. Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.

Homer

#26. There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.

Iain Banks

#27. There are many gods ... gods of beauty and magic, gods of the garden, gods in our own backyards, but we go off to foreign countries to find new ones, we reach to the stars to find new ones
... The god of the church is a jealous god; he cannot live in peace with other gods.

Rudolfo Anaya

#28. Will we be the gods? Will we be the family pets? Or will we be ants that get stepped on? I don't know about that ... But when I got that thinking in my head about if I'm going to be treated in the future as a pet to these smart machines ... well I'm going to treat my own pet dog really nice.

Steve Wozniak

#29. Were the Romans Christians?" I asked him, remembering my curiosity at the Roman farm. "Not always," Ravn said. "They had their own gods once, but they gave them up to become Christians and after that they knew nothing but defeat.

Bernard Cornwell

#30. It is the men of this land who are bloodthirsty and they lay their own guilt on the gods.

Edith Hamilton

#31. We make our own gods for our own purposes. And we love them, and that's the whole point.

David Shoemaker

#32. If you aren't vigilant, if you aren't daily humbling yourself before Him, seeking His face, discerning His timing, operating under the Spirit's control, you may push and shove and force your way prematurely into that place where God wanted you, but you will not have arrived in His own time.

Charles R. Swindoll

#33. To them that ask: Where hast thou seen the Gods, or how knowest thou certainly that there be Gods, that thou art so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it.

Marcus Aurelius

#34. I've tried to write from my own understanding of identity in all my comics, whether it's about superheroes or historical conflicts or monkey gods.

Gene Luen Yang

#35. The battle with the gods thus hinges on our own mortality! Creativity is a yearning for immortality.

Rollo May

#36. We need to create the kind of kingdom-shaped culture within our churches that constantly shines the light of Christ wherever these false gods exist in our own affections.

Russell D. Moore

#37. Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given ...

Homer

#38. Be your own gods. Go home and tell other people this: the secret of God is that he's in the fucking mirror.

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#39. I don't believe there is a God", I said fiercely, "and if there is, He's not the merciful being He's always depicted, or He wouldn't be always torturing me for His own amusement.

Miles Franklin

#40. God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion of gods and religions, and the fratricide both between and among faiths, that we see all about us and that has so retarded the development of civilization.

Christopher Hitchens

#41. Faith in one's own destiny was among the most valuable of the gifts which the gods could bestow upon a man,

Arthur C. Clarke

#42. The gods of the hearth exist for us still; and let all new faith be tolerant of that fetishism, lest it bruise its own roots.

George Eliot

#43. It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.

Vikram Seth

#44. Because it is always easier to blame gods or legends than it is to face our own mistakes. This land is no more cursed than any other. It is simply steeped in too much blood.

Susan Dennard

#45. If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade.

Aesop

#46. But do not search for the Gods in vain when it is your own heart and mind that can find the way.

Vasileios Kalampakas

#47. But if the gods only cursed us, then we would hate them. And if they only blessed us, then - well, then we'd care nothing for their laws because we'd respect nothing but our own pleasure.

Kate Elliott

#48. No true love is possible, Lewis demonstrates, until we abandon our claims, our rights, our grievances. Until then we will be trapped in the obscurity of our heart's mixed motives, our will to possess, to control, to be our own gods.

Michael D. O'Brien

#49. Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.

Jean Cocteau

#50. God will not go forth with that man who marches in his own strength

Charles Spurgeon

#51. Youre supposed to be the leading lady in your own life, for Gods sake!

Kate Winslet

#52. Those ruffians, the Gods, shan't have it all their own way,
her notion being that the Gods, who never lost a chance of hurting, thwarting and spoiling human lives were seriously put out if, all the same, you behaved like a lady.

Virginia Woolf

#53. The Prime Directive exists to remind us that we are not gods. We don't get to reorganize every world, every civilization, every existence out here in our own image,

Kirsten Beyer

#54. Life is not profound without its own tragedy. It humbles us. Sets the bar for our introspection. Keeps us from believing we are gods. Puts our egos in check.

Crystal Evans

#55. When she absently worried her bottom lip with one of her adorable little fangs, he sighed.
The Enemy of Old fucking sighed.
Dear gods, it'd finally happened to him.
Happiness.
Then his own fangs sharpened.I will kill anyone who tries to take this feeling away from me.

Kresley Cole

#56. If oxen and horses and lions could draw and paint, they would delineate the gods in their own image.

Xenophanes

#57. Thousands of years ago, after the big Titan-God war, the gods had sliced him into bits with his own scythe and scattered his remains in Tartarus, which is like the gods' bottomless recycling bin for their enemies.

Rick Riordan

#58. Or maybe it's time for people to be their own Jedi. They weren't gods - just people like us, who saw a need. If they could find a way, I'm sure we can.

John Jackson Miller

#59. We are our own wicked gods with little 'g's' and big dicks, sadistic and constantly inflicting a slow demise.

Marilyn Manson

#60. Upon my word, just see how mortal men always put the blame on us gods! We are the source of evil, so they say - when they have only their own madness to think if their miseries are worse than they ought to be.

Homer

#61. There is another way of disqualifying the metaphysicians ... Judge them by their works. What have they done for mankind beyond the spinning of airy fancies and the mistaking of their own shadows for gods?

Jack London

#62. So you could value your own life," replied the Titan. "Before that you were under the gods' thumbs, doing their bidding without caring if you lived or died. When you could see that life was worth living by your fear of the unknown that was death, then you could really make things happen.

Jasper Fforde

#63. Even the weakest and most vulnerable, the sick, the old, the unborn and the poor, are masterpieces of God's creation, made in his own image, destined to live for ever, and deserving of the utmost reverence and respect.

Pope Francis

#64. Thankfully, God's plans also happen to be much better than my own.

Katie Davis

#65. Ye Gods and Little Fishes," said Sir Henry, "can it be? George, it's my own particular, one and only four starred Pussy. The super Pussy of all old Pussies...

Agatha Christie

#66. Gods tend to be selfish. Even when they're helpful, they always have their own motives. That's why you have to be careful about trusting them.

Rick Riordan

#67. It is always easier to blame gods or legends than it is to face our own mistakes.

Susan Dennard

#68. Ah, brothers, this God which I created was human work and human madness, like all gods!
He was human, and only a poor piece of man and Ego: this phantom came to me from my own fire and ashes, that is the truth! It did not come from the 'beyond'!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#69. It was fate, I thought. Just fate. We think we control our own lives, but the gods play with us like children playing with straw dolls.

Bernard Cornwell

#70. We are our own gods and our own demons

Sergei Lukyanenko

#71. My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

George Santayana

#72. But some, a very come to the gods all on their own They find their way - long and far it is, sometimes - and they wander up to the altars, shy and clumsy and embarrassed and alone, and when they can get the words out, they say, 'Well. Here I am

Peter S. Beagle

#73. Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the state.

Plato

#74. Who claims that the heathen's view of the world is incorrect? Life gives you nothing! It is ruled by false gods! Nothing remains true to you but your own self; provided you remain true to it.

Franz Grillparzer

#75. The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#76. My mother used to say that the gods made the world round so that we could never see too far into our own future.

Kirsten Beyer

#77. Although the mass of the people accepted the white man's God, either under physical duress or because he seemed more powerful than their own Gods, they never assimilated the ideas of Christianity.

Penny Lernoux

#78. The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods. It took me four years, seven months, and three days to do it. I didn't know where I was going until I got there.
It was a place called the Bridge of the Gods.

Cheryl Strayed

#79. It seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I went about with all these fantastic figures: centaurs, nymphs, satyrs, gods and goddesses, as though they were patients and I was analyzing them. I read a Greek or Negro myth as if a lunatic were telling me his anamnesis.

C. G. Jung

#80. How can one be pleasing to God when one is inflated with pride and self-love under the pretense of striving for Gods glory, while in fact one is seeking ones own glory?

Mary Faustina Kowalska

#81. Kill them all, God will recognise his own.

Arnaud Amalric

#82. Was her God up there in the sky as she believed? Did he truly hear man's whispers,his thoughts? Hunter could see his own Gods,Mother Earth,Mother Moon, Father Sun, the wind coming from four directions. It was easy to believe in what he could see. Why did Loretta's God hide himself?

Catherine Anderson

#83. It was his vocation to pleasure as many women as possible, in pursuit of his own pleasure. It was as close to a job as he got.

Rosanna Leo

#84. Our gods did not come to us in any specific form, but we held them in our hearts and understood them in our own way.

Natsuo Kirino

#85. Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

Democritus

#86. Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.

Plato

#87. Create your own myths; that is how the gods got started.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#88. Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked.
With your own voice,' he said.

Erica Jong

#89. I've always loved the idea of mythologies linked to or underlying everyday life, like the kami gods of Shintoism, where every rock, tree and stream has its own little god associated with it.

Charles Soule

#90. Let us trust to ourselves, see all with our own eyes; Let these be our oracles, our tripods and our gods.

Will Durant

#91. So the gods," Moash said, nursing his own drink, "were pleased that you solved problems on your own ... by going to other gods and begging them for help instead?"
"Hush," Rock said. "Is good story.

Brandon Sanderson

#92. Perhaps she would learn in time to permit both her daughter and her gods to govern their own affairs.

Thornton Wilder

#93. Perhaps the gods punish us by bringing us face to face with our own foolish mistakes, condemning us to watch our children fall into the same traps that crippled us.

Robin Hobb

#94. To every religion the gods of other religions are only notions concerning God, but its own conception of God is to it God himself, the true God.

Ludwig Feuerbach

#95. The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

Albert Camus

#96. I don't know why the gods made Fate our master then gave us a fighting spirit, perhaps only for their own amusement, perhaps to give us a thirst for life.

Scott Oden

#97. Culture. A culture is a people enacting a story." "A people enacting a story. And a story again is ... ?" "A scenario interrelating man, the world, and the gods." "Okay. So you're saying that the people of my culture are enacting their own story about man, the world, and the gods." "That's right.

Daniel Quinn

#98. We are not servants of some God; we are 'our own gods?'

Oprah Winfrey

#99. He is forbidden to love as a man. Passion must find its own way out. Claws tear the heart. Love is the most merciless of gods. Something so powerful will not be stopped, only turned, often to violence. I can almost understand this man.

Rebecca Ashe

#100. You never hear a prophecy start with the gods were in error. If it's good, thank the gods - but if it's bad, it's your own damn fault!

Gregory S. Close