Strange Gods Quotes

#1. And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

Phyllis Schlafly

#2. Remember that it is 'free-thinking Jews,' not Jews as such, who are defined as the undesirables by T.S. Eliot in After Strange Gods.

Christopher Hitchens

#3. The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

D.H. Lawrence

#4. He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.

Anonymous

#5. If a man goes up into Parnassus after sunset, why should he not see strange things? The gods still walk there, and a man who would not go carefully in the country of the gods is a fool.

Mary Stewart

#6. What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.

Nicholas Sparks

#7. What are you? From where did you come? I have never seen anything like you. The Creator Raven looked at Man and was ... surprised to find that this strange new being was so much like himself.

Eskimo Creation Myth

#8. I tried to close my ears to the strange worshipful chanting and fix my mind on God, but the Egyptians' idolatry weighed down my weary shoulders and brought tears to my closed eyes.

Kristen Reed

#9. I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?

Tarsem Singh

#10. People who look like human beings are not human beings. Strange people are amongst us. We must be careful. Our lives are changing. Our gods are silent. Our ancestors are silent. A great something is going to come from the sky and change the face of the earth.

Ben Okri

#11. They were the gods of this strange little heaven, and I was their guest.

Ransom Riggs

#12. What a strange circumstance she found herself in: baking brownies for a handful of gods from the Underworld.

Eva Pohler

#13. When you represent the state of Washington, we have a tradition of deciding social issues by vote. Washington State passed abortion rights before Roe v. Wade and affirmed it at the ballot box later.

Michael Baumgartner

#14. I almost forgot how gorgeous Adonis is," she [Ava] said, "We should have made him one of us."
She [Ava] wouldn't have gotten any argument out of me, but a strange sound escaped from James, almost like he was growling. "And have to endure another narcissistic blond running around? No, thank you.

Aimee Carter

#15. My worship is of a very strange kind.
In this, Ganga water is not required.
No special utensils are necessary.
Even flowers are redundant.
In this puja all gods have disappeared.
And emptiness has emerged with euphoria.

Lahiri Mahasaya

#16. Today, if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other-that man, that woman, that child is my brother or my sister. If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we would still need tanks and generals?

Mother Teresa

#17. In strange ways hard to know gods come to men.
Many a thing past hope they have fulfilled,
And what was asked for went another way.
A path we never thought to tread God found for us.
So this has come to pass.

Edith Hamilton

#18. The kind of individual that you see on the outside, is never the same person on the inside.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#19. Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.

Democritus

#20. I love hanging out with friends and family.

Ashley Wagner

#21. Maybe if we hug a hundred strangers, he said, something will change.

Kyung-Sook Shin

#22. But although They no longer lived, They would never really die.

Anonymous

#23. Men (and women) indeed become strange when seeking gods. As the present work will show, however, they become even stranger when seeking devils.

Robert Anton Wilson

#24. The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

Oscar Wilde

#25. Gods, gods! 'tis strange that from their cold'st neglect
My love should kindle to inflamed respect.

William Shakespeare

#26. Every moment, every day, we are all making something -- whether it's science or art, a relationship to a destiny -- building it choice by choice, moment by moment.

Claudia Gray

#27. Northern Ireland still suffers from its past, and it will take generations to escape sectarianism and for violence to end totally. Nonetheless, it is in a different place now than during the Troubles, and it will not go back to the old days.

Jonathan Powell

#28. When Plutarch says that a city might sooner subsist without a geographical site than without belief in the gods, his words would not have appeared strange to his countrymen at any time.']

Michael Oakeshott