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.
Even Ramanama is by itself lifeless, but it has become a living symbol of the deity because millions of people have consecrated it.
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.
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.
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.
Distinguisht Link in Being's endless Chain! Midway from Nothing to the Deity!
Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity?
Fabricating answers to unanswerable questions is the domain of religion. A deity model is not the default alternative to a scientific mystery.
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.
I've always accepted some kind of deity, especially as a songwriter.
All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in Him again.
Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
Brethren, the Deity was not revealed to gratify our curiosity, or to increase our pride of intellect, but to bring us into relations of affection, submission, and communion with Him.
Nature is saturated with Deity.
Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science.
The present is a powerful deity. [Ger. , Die Gegenwart ist eine machtige Gottin. ]
It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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.
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.
Prayers aren't for the deity. . . They're for you, to recommit yourself to what you believe.