Top 100 Quotes About Deities
#1. And do we also have, do we have ... a party of minor deities from the Halls of Asgard? Away to his right came a rumble of thunder. Lightning arced across the stage. A small group of hairy men with helmets sat looking very pleased with themselves, and raised their glasses to him.
Douglas Adams
#2. Actual places, landscapes that exist[ed] simultaneously in both physical and metaphysical space ... true geographical refugia, verdant valleys dominated by protective mountain deities where people could seek solace as lonely pilgrims, or flee violence as a community in time of war.
Wade Davis
#3. Many of these omnibuses were driven, oddly enough, by male models who had retired from the business, which meant that Parisians of Manet's day were transported around the city by men who had once posed as valiant biblical heroes or the vindictive deities of classical mythology.
Ross King
#4. I am all deities in one. You may endeavour your best for thousands of years and have all mankind with you in your search. But you cannot understand My Reality.
Sathya Sai Baba
#5. Why do the same people who believe in those deities doubt the existence of darker spirits? I ask all of you, how can a person believe in the light but not the dark?
John Searles
#6. But what I learned from the Widow's Hand is that whose who would be gods fear no one so much as other potential deities
Salman Rushdie
#7. He who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. Butwe would not disparage the importance of such calculations as we have described. They are truths in physics because they are true in ethics.
Henry David Thoreau
#8. Since the Gods of hangovers ignore you I hope the Deities of STD's bestow you with rotten crotch.
Sherri Desbois
#9. Deities can actually own property in India, though the law treats them as minors, and they must be represented by an official guardian.
Jake Halpern
#10. The deities have so many hidden great things in their skies agenda.
Some can't accept if humans ain't dominant in their scale of priorities.
Toba Beta
#12. That is the greatest danger in theology and deities - that they create the impression that goodness cannot be created or maintained by mere humans without divine help. This allows all measure of excuses ... and strange contortions to explain perfectly logical occurrences ... .
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#13. A story. This was the key to immortality. The things that made kings quiver and deities distrustful: Nothing but a tale.
Roshani Chokshi
#14. 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
#15. All deities are external manifestation of humanity's internal divinity.
Abhijit Naskar
#16. Sing before the spirits and dance with the earth deities
And you will be able to compose your own tune.
Then you and I, united, will clap hands joyously,
Singing 'tum-tiddly-um tum-tiddly-um-tum.
Hongzhi Zhengjue
#17. 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
#18. The world is fine and everything is normal and then, bang, you just get bowled over by the wrathful deities somehow. That happens in very small ways and happens in very large ways when you have a major conflagration in the world. It's another cycle of existence of human beings.
Bill Viola
#19. In a front of each home garden the villagers fixed a triangular wooden lamp-house on the top of a pole planted on the ground to hold a small statue of Lord Buddha and some deities. They used to offer flowers at this small shrine and light a tiny clay oil lamp.
Swarnakanthi Rajapakse
#20. Life's not easy, it is a hard task to live it well and with grace - but, by Hades, let's not complicate it with deities and water-nymphs!
Michael Moorcock
#21. Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#22. NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient.
Ambrose Bierce
#23. Universal deities ... never seem to smile. Not in any culture. What's the point of having omnipotence if you don't enjoy it?
Jack McDevitt
#24. In bitter manuscript remarks on other men's notions about solar deities, he had become indifferent to the sunlight.
George Eliot
#25. Mantras are to be recited together. Mantras are an instrument to please the celestial deities.
Dada Bhagwan
#26. Beauties that from worth arise are like the grace of deities.
John Suckling
#27. Gods are called many by the error of some who worshipped many deities, thinking as they did the planets and other stars were gods, and also the separate parts of the world.
Thomas Aquinas
#28. I know there is only one
Governor
Of
Deities.
Toba Beta
#29. Hinduism, the predominant religion (in India), believes in the existence of multiple gods, many of whom are androgynous (having both female and male characteristics). Many Hindu sects are devoted to the worship of specific deities, such as Rama, Vishnu, and Shiva.
James Peoples
#30. Gods, rather than being outside entities, are personifications of what lies in our hearts. If this is true, then the many, varied gods of the human sects - deities of vastly different demeanors - reveal much about the race.
R.A. Salvatore
#31. Essentially I'm a pantheist-agnostic. I worship many deities with equal amounts of confusion.
Jonathan Ames
#32. When will she discover that I am from a lesser race of immortals? But the high deities have always needed pixies to persuade them down to earth. When she no longer needs an intermediary, will she still love me?
Ann-Marie MacDonald
#33. The ancient Greeks and Romans were comfortable with any number of deities and were quite open to allowing conquered nations to continue to worship in whatever ways they saw fit, as long as they didn't mind having an emperor who required taxes and tributes.
Jay Parini
#34. As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules over the whole earth, maketh the clouds his chariot, and reigns above the waterfloods as a king.
Annie Besant
#35. Given the tendency of many to picture God's realm as somewhere high above Earth - an idea that sounds suspiciously like the Greek stories of deities perched on inaccessible mountain tops - it may seem plausible to assume that astronomers have special insight. Well, of course they don't.
Seth Shostak
#36. I was descended from a handful of fertility deities, but I guess I really hadn't understood what that meant. I mean, there was fertile and then there was being able to get pregnant while you were already pregnant.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#37. The immortal gods, the deities will rise, they will fall but none will live beyond the wall. Prometheus, knows love & saves them all.
Truth Devour
#38. He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty.
Edgar Lee Masters
#39. When the kingdom's people had stopped believing in the druids' deities they had not begun believing in nothing, they had begun believing in anything.
Stephen Hunt
#40. MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
Ambrose Bierce
#41. The first duty of an Author is
I conceive
a faithful allegiance to Truth and Nature; his second, such a conscientious study of Art as shall enable him to interpret eloquently and effectively the oracles delivered by those two great deities.
Charlotte Bronte
Juliet Barker
#42. In the course of time one does not feel even the existence of God. After attaining enlightenment one sees that gods and deities are all Maya.
Sarada Devi
#43. There is absolutely no reason to believe that those things for which science does not yet have natural explanations will turn out to be of supernatural origin, any more than volcanoes or earthquakes or diseases turn out to be caused by angry deities, as people once believed they were. Of
Richard Dawkins
#44. Women know when men don't desire them: ghosts and witches, deities and demons, angels of death - even virgins, even ordinary women. They always know; women can tell when you have stopped desiring them.
John Irving
#45. People who need to believe in deities can find them everywhere they look.
Graham Kendall
#46. What is it about our specific belief in God and His wishes that makes us so angry at the specific beliefs of another? What is it about the teachings of our respective deities that makes us more right than the next person? Or more wrong?
Chuck Austen
#47. We are not on this planet to ask forgiveness of our deities.
Scott Cunningham
#48. The religious belief varies from village to village. Nearly all worship the cholera and smallpox deities, and there are traces of serpent worship.
Paul Theroux
#49. In one breath, I can say that we are God, but in another I have to say that we aren't deities.
Alanis Morissette
#50. 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
#51. Deities are invented by fallible and finite beings in the hope and desire to create immortal perfection; unfortunately, such deities only reflect their creators and inspire their followers to similar imperfections.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#52. Unlike many deities of the ancient Near East, the God of Israel shared his power with no female divinity, nor was he the divine husband or lover of any.
Elaine Pagels
#53. For we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.
Rabindranath Tagore
#54. Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#55. If Israel is to please the Lord fully, they will live lives that are as distinctive among the nations as their Lord is different from pagan deities.
Max Anders
#56. But men have been committing heinous acts in the name of God ever since mankind began believing in deities, and extremists exist within all religions.
Jon Krakauer
#57. We don't know whether they're going to eat us or elect us for their tribal deities.
Clark Ashton Smith
#58. [f]ortune is the lease capricious of deities, and arranges things on the just and rigid system that no one shall be very happy for very long.
Evelyn Waugh
#59. I sacrifice to no god save myself- And to my belly, greatest of deities.
Euripides
#60. Religions understand this: they know that to sustain goodness, it helps to have an audience. The faiths hence provide us with a gallery of witnesses at the ceremonial beginnings of our marriages and thereafter they entrust a vigilant role to their deities.
Alain De Botton
#61. Here Jove with Hermes came; but in disguise
Of mortal men conceal'd their deities;
One laid aside his thunder, one his rod
Ovid
#62. Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity.
Edward Gibbon
#63. The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity.
Mahatma Gandhi
#64. We should worship as though the deity were present.
Confucius
#66. There is a deity within us who breathes that divine fire by which we are animated.
Ovid
#67. By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#68. OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.
Ambrose Bierce
#70. The heavens are nobly eloquent of the Deity, and the most magnificent heralds of their Maker's praise.
James Hervey
#71. 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
#72. The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.
Joseph Addison
#73. How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams. His pow'rs the most voluptuously dissolve In soft repose; on him the balmy dews Of Sleep with double nutriment descend.
John Armstrong
#74. I mean, I think even God would agree with this at this point. God's existence isn't important. It's what we do with what we've got that counts.
Michael Ruse
#75. A deity who remains silent and invisible should not get angry or surprised at doubt of his reality.
Graham Kendall
#76. 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
#77. Well, in the sense of the traditional notion of God, coming out of Christianity and Islam and the Abrahamic religions, I do not hold with that concept of a God or deity. In that concept, I'm agnostic. Okay, I don't know the answer, let's find the answer.
Edgar Mitchell
#78. All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in Him again.
Zoroaster
#79. Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent.
C. A. Bartol
#80. If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity.
Mahatma Gandhi
#81. Why seek the Deity further? Whatever we see is God, and wherever we go.
Lucan
#82. It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity ... To be given the best morsel, to be remembered, to be praised, to be obeyed blindly and punctiliously - these have been thought points of honor with the gods.
George Santayana
#83. Life and the Universe show spontaneity;Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;Truth must be sought with the Positivists.
Mortimer Collins
#84. "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
#86. Fabricating answers to unanswerable questions is the domain of religion. A deity model is not the default alternative to a scientific mystery.
Graham Kendall
#88. Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity?
John Stuart Mill
#89. 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
#91. My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity.
Giovanni Boccaccio
#92. The principle of love within us is an attribute of the Deity, and it is placed within us to be dispensed independently according to our own will.
Brigham Young
#93. I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic Church.
Katie Holmes
#95. The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity.
George Herbert
#96. 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
#97. It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
Tacitus
#98. I think God is everything. Human beings created the punitive, vengeful deity who considers us to be innate sinners.
Alanis Morissette
#99. The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet.
Plato
#100. How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! ... Midway from nothing to the Deity!
Edward Young
