Gods Quotes
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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
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Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.
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Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.
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Those whom the gods love grow young.
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Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
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Women treat us men like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.
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It is the perfection of God's works that they are all done with the greatest simplicity. He is the God of order and not of confusion. And therefore as they would understand the frame of the world must endeavor to reduce their knowledge to all possible simplicity, so must it be in seeking to understand these visions.
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Men create the gods after their own images.
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O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet! How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost, Defaced, deflow'red, and now to death devote? Paradise Lost
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It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.
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Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.
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It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.
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The safest place to be is in the center of God's will.
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All things are full of gods.
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The world is filled with God's glory. You can't turn without bumping into it.
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The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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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.
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God’s grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious. We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite. God sets limits to His patience and forbearance. He warns us over and over again that someday the ax will fall and His judgment will be poured out.
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The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
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When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave Them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us, and delivered us, bound, to our foe, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.
