It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause
Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.
Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil.
thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
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.
Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul of man, as a devout, earnest, continued, investigation of the great subject of the Deity. The most excellent study for expanding the soul is the science of Christ and Him crucified and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity.
The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells, - there is no Deity.
We should worship as though the deity were present.
A faithful friend is the true image of the Deity.
If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity.
I came to Him because I did not know which way to turn. I remained with Him because there is no other way I wish to turn. I came to Him longing for something I did not have. I remain with Him because I have something I will not trade. I came to Him as a stranger. I remain with Him in the most intimate of friendships. I came to Him unsure about the future. I remain with Him certain about my destiny. I came amid the thunderous cries of a culture that has 330 million deities. I remain with Him knowing that truth cannot be all-inclusive.
All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in Him again.
Distinguisht Link in Being's endless Chain! Midway from Nothing to the Deity!
It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.
The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.
A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity
When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.
In one breath, I can say that we are God, but in another I have to say that we aren't deities.
Death is the inseparable antecedent of life; the seed dies in order to produce the plant, and earth itself is rent asunder and dies at the birth of Dionusos. Hence the significancy of the phallus, or of its inoffensive substitute, the obelisk, rising as an emblem of resurrection by the tomb of buried Deity at Lerna or at Sais.
Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope for your freedom until you once more believe in your own concept of the 'deity. '