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God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.
R. C. Sproul

Authors on Deities Quotes: Mahatma Gandhi Edgar Mitchell Edward Young Ambrose Bierce Graham Kendall Ralph Waldo Emerson Alanis Morissette Richard Lewontin Alice James John Henrik Clarke Dan Simmons Laurence Sterne Oswald Chambers Sarada Devi Mortimer Collins Charles Darwin Norman Douglas C. A. Bartol Napoleon Bonaparte Tacitus John Herschel Bayard Taylor Gilbert K. Chesterton Sheri S. Tepper John Shelby Spong Abdus Salam Lawrence Kasdan Ovid Sathya Sai Baba Mary Russell Mitford Charles Spurgeon James Russell Lowell Percy Bysshe Shelley
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It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause
David Hume

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OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.
Ambrose Bierce

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Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts.
Sheri S. Tepper

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Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope for your freedom until you once more believe in your own concept of the 'deity.'
John Henrik Clarke

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This sense of wonder leads most scientists to a Superior Being - der Alte, the Old One, as Einstein affectionately called the Deity - a Superior Intelligence, the Lord of all Creation and Natural Law.
Abdus Salam

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We are not on this planet to ask forgiveness of our deities.
Scott Cunningham

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Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science.
Mary Somerville

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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
Calvin Coolidge

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All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in Him again.
Zoroaster

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

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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
Charles Darwin

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One of the most amazing revelations of God comes to us when we learn that it is in the everyday things of life that we realize the magnificent deity of Jesus Christ.
Oswald Chambers

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In the course of time one does not feel even the existence of God. After attaining enlightenment one sees that gods and deities are all Maya.
Sarada Devi

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The transcendent experience is brotherly love, nature, harmony and unity. Cultures, in trying to define it, try to define an external deity as opposed to the process.
Edgar Mitchell

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The Saturnian Spirit, Satan...ensouls the...Primary Ray of Deity.
Vera Stanley Alder

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There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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A faithful friend is the true image of the Deity.
Napoleon Bonaparte

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My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity.
Giovanni Boccaccio

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Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.
Max Beckmann

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thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
William Blake

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A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.
Donny Osmond

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O unfathomable depth! O Deity eternal! O deep ocean! What more could You give me than to give me Yourself?
St. Catherine of Siena

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Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity.
H. P. Blavatsky

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How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams. His pow'rs the most voluptuously dissolve In soft repose; on him the balmy dews Of Sleep with double nutriment descend.
John Armstrong

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Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
Ambrose Bierce

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We should worship as though the deity were present.
Confucius

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A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity
Voltaire

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To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen.
Richard Lewontin

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I think God is everything. Human beings created the punitive, vengeful deity who considers us to be innate sinners.
Alanis Morissette

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The great Creator to revere Must sure become the creature; But still the preaching cant forbear, And ev'n the rigid feature: Yet ne'er with wits profane to range Be complaisance extended;An atheist laugh's a poor exchange For deity offended.
Robert Burns

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Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent.
C. A. Bartol

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"Out, damned spot!" That is the true cry of human nature. That stain cannot be removed without blood and that which is infinitely more, and deeper, and profounder, and more terrible than blood, of which blood is but the symbol - the suffering of Deity.
G. Campbell Morgan

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Life and the Universe show spontaneity;Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;Truth must be sought with the Positivists.
Mortimer Collins

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The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
D. H. Lawrence

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There's an old saying, "We can mess it up and God cleans it up." I haven't noticed a deity of any sort cleaning up our messes. We're going to have to do it ourselves, particularly since we have created most of these problems just by the genius and creativity that we've expressed and experienced here in this modern period. We've done it, and we've got to straighten it out.
Edgar Mitchell

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No doubt the testimony of natural reason, on whatever exercised, must, of necessity, stop short of those truths which it is the object of revelation to make known; still it places the existence and personal attributes of the Deity on such grounds as to render doubts absurd and atheism ridiculous.
John Herschel

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I am all deities in one. You may endeavour your best for thousands of years and have all mankind with you in your search. But you cannot understand My Reality.
Sathya Sai Baba

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When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.
Mark Twain

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The heavens are nobly eloquent of the Deity, and the most magnificent heralds of their Maker's praise.
James Hervey

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As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
Bayard Taylor

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The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.
William Robertson Smith

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It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given the best morsel, to be remembered, to be praised, to be obeyed blindly and punctiliously - these have been thought points of honor with the gods.
George Santayana

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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.
Charles Spurgeon

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We may imitate the Deity in all His attributes; but mercy is the only one in which we can pretend to equal Him. We cannot, indeed, give like God; but surely we may forgive like Him.
Laurence Sterne

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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

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In one breath, I can say that we are God, but in another I have to say that we aren't deities.
Alanis Morissette

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

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Physical science has taught us to associate Deity with the normal rather than with the abnormal.
William Edward Hartpole Lecky

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Love is one of the chief characteristics of Deity, and ought to be manifested by those who aspire to be the sons of God.
Joseph Smith, Jr.