Deity Quotes

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.

That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.

Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.

Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.

Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity.

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

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.

I'm very impressed by St. Patrick's. Another deity to me is definitely Saks Fifth Avenue. Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they're home. I'm that way at Saks.

As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

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.

The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.