Gods Quotes
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Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.
Plato
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When men make gods, there is no God!
Eugene O'Neill
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As long as there is poverty there will be gods.
Will Durant
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Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods.
David Sylvester
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There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less and a cleaner, better stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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By taking these three steps you will get closer to the Gods: First, Say the Truth. Second: Don't let you get Angry. Third: Give, even though you have so little to give.
Gautama Buddha
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When a belief vanishes, there survives it -- more and more vigorously so as to cloak the absence of the power, now lost to us, of imparting reality to new things -- a fetishistic attachment to the old things which it did once animate, as if it was in them and not in ourselves that the divine spark resided, and as if our present incredulity had a contingent cause -- the death of the gods.
Marcel Proust
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Americans resent the vagaries of weather to a degree unknown to other peoples. ... Weather is a force we have lost touch with. We feel entitled to dominate it, like everything else in the environment, and when we can't are more panic-stricken than primitives who know that when nature is out of control they can only pray to the gods.
Eleanor Perenyi
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Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.
Thomas Hardy
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Speak the truth.
Give whatever you can.
Never be angry.
These three steps will lead you
Into the presence of the gods.
Gautama Buddha
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Some go to Church, proud humbly to repent,
And come back much more guilty than they went:
One way they look, another way they steer,
Pray to the Gods; but would have Mortals hear;
And when their sins they set sincerely down,
They'll find that their Religion has been one.
Edward Joseph Young
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Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
Sallust
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On the practical level, the gods were understood to be closely connected with every aspect of the social and political life of a community...
On the imperial level this meant that it was widely known—and genuinely believed by most—that it was the gods who had made the empire great...
The Christians refused to worship or even acknowledge the gods of the empire, claiming in fact that these were evil, demonic beings, not beneficent deities that promoted the just cause of the greatest empire the world had ever known.
The refusal to worship was seen by others to be dangerous to the well-being of the empire and thus to the security of the state.
And so the decision to persecute—which seems to us, perhaps, to be a strictly religious affair—was at the time inherently sociopolitical as well.
Bart Ehrman
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Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.
Plato
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Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked. With your own voice,' he said.
Erica Jong
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What is nobler than to tread under foot the gods of the nations, to exorcise evil spirits, to perform cures, to seek divine revelations, and to live to God? These are the pleasures - these are the spectacles - that befit Christian men.
Tertullian
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Where there is lack, God’s abundance is on the way. Hold on. Have faith. It’s coming.
Marianne Williamson
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Any analysis of the gospel which did not begin and end with God's liberation of the oppressed was ipso facto unchristian.
James Hal Cone
