Gods Quotes
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Live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind. For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world.
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Farden, I swear to the gods, I will carry you through this door myself if you don’t hurry up!
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“There was no dearth of gods in my country. It only lacked men.”
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God's faithfulness means that God will always do what He said and fulfill what He has promised.
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The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.
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If the gods do evil then they are not gods.
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Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
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But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being a god! Hence, there areno gods. I drew this conclusion, to be sure--but now it draws me.
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I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.
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Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.
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We can't change ourselves, it is Gods strength within us that makes the changes. We must do our part and God does His. What I tried to do myself is tiny compared to what God and I do together. He is the best partner I have ever had!
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As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place. Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
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One thing at a time, as in the days when I was building Joshua. If I had wanted to build all the boat at once, the enormity of the task would have crushed me. I had to put all I had into the hull alone, without thinking about the rest. It would follow . . . with the help of the gods. Sailing non-stop around the world is the same. I do not think anyone has the means of pulling it off—at the start.
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We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men.
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Meekness, then, was not weakness but relying fully on Gods power as Moses had.
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Pray, for all men need the aid of the gods.
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The tithe is God's historical method to get us on the path of giving. In that sense, it can serve as a gateway to the joy of grace giving. It's unhealthy to view tithing as a place to stop, but it can still be a good place to start.
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The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.
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The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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The heavens were the grandstands and only the gods were spectators. The stake was the world, the forfeit was the player's place at the table, and the game had no recess. It was the most dangerous of all sports and the most fascinating. It got in the blood like wine. It aged men forty years in forty days. It ruined nervous systems in an hour.
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Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!
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Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.
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See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.
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If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.