Deity Quotes

• Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Marriage
  • Surgeon
  • Self-Love

• The religions that fascinate me and, you know, could possibly tempt me are not the ones that involve faith or belief. They're the ones that offer you the opportunity to know the spirit or deity.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Belief
  • Religions
  • Fascinate

• I am not insulted by billions of Christians, Muslims and Jews believing there is a God and praying to this nonexistent deity on a regular basis.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • God
  • Believing
  • Nonexistent

• The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity.

  

  William R. Alger
  • May
  • Devil
  • Bullied

• Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Revelation

• Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality, Nay, it is Deity - Unable they that love - to die For Love reforms Vitality Into Divinity.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Love
  • Immortality
  • Vitality

• We should worship as though the deity were present.

  

  Confucius
  • Present
  • Worship
  • Deity

• How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Deity
  • Complicate
  • Midway

• A faithful friend is the true image of the Deity.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Friend
  • Image
  • Deity

• If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Power
  • Right
  • Innocent

• Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Present
  • Deity

• While brother Joseph was referring to the provinces of God, I was led to reflect that there is no act, no principle, no power belonging to the Deity that is purely philosophical. The birth of the Saviour was as natural as are the births of our children; it was the result of natural action. He partook of flesh and blood - was begotten of his Father, as we were of our fathers.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Principle
  • Brother Joseph
  • Provinces of God

• The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet.

  

  Plato
  • Purpose
  • Poet
  • Deity

• Your people are not unwise, after all: love of the perfect Deity may prevent us from loving imperfect man! But God's will is to restore the lost; and that can't be done without loving them.

  

  K. J. Bishop
  • God
  • Love
  • Man

• The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Books
  • Truth Is
  • Deity

• Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Chance
  • Child
  • Deity

• The trouble is small, the fun is great.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Present
  • Deity

• And for our unparalleled ingratitude to that Adorable Being Who has seated us in a land irradiated by the cheering beams of the Gospel of Jesus Christ ... let us fall prostrate before offended Deity, confess sincerely and penitently our manifold sins and our unworthiness of the least of His Divine favors, fervently implore His pardon through the merits of our mediator.

  

  Elbridge Gerry
  • Sins
  • Favors
  • Mediator

• O my people, worship Allah; you have no deity other than Him. Indeed, I fear for you the punishment of a tremendous Day!

  

  Noah
  • People
  • Punishment
  • Deity

• The principle of love within us is an attribute of the Deity, and it is placed within us to be dispensed independently according to our own will.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Deity
  • Principle of Love
  • Own will