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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly. -- Victor Hugo
Deities are invented by fallible and finite beings in the hope and desire to create immortal perfection; unfortunately, such deities only reflect their creators and inspire their followers to similar imperfections. -- L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity. -- Ambrose Bierce
Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. -- Honore de Balzac
Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity. -- Helena Blavatsky
We are not on this planet to ask forgiveness of our deities. -- Scott Cunningham
The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity. -- D. H. Lawrence
Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight. -- John Ruskin
The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity. -- William Robertson Smith
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. -- Calvin Coolidge
I sacrifice to no god save myself- And to my belly, greatest of deities. -- Euripides
Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. -- Ambrose Bierce
Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained. -- Max Beckmann
When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out. -- Frank Sinatra
When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know. -- Mark Twain
Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. -- Ambrose Bierce
He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty. -- Edgar Lee Masters
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing. -- Francis Bacon
MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later. -- Ambrose Bierce
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
NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient. -- Ambrose Bierce
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
A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition. -- Ambrose Bierce
That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity. -- Charles Eastman
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason. -- Dag Hammarskjold
My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people. -- John Henrik Clarke
thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast. -- William Blake
Beauties that from worth arise are like the grace of deities. -- John Suckling
We are not on this planet to ask forgiveness of our deities -- Scott Cunningham
A triptych in which the presiding deities are Mother, England and Me. -- Peter Ackroyd
People who need to believe in deities can find them everywhere they look. -- Graham Kendall
Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
In bitter manuscript remarks on other men's notions about solar deities, he had become indifferent to the sunlight. -- George Eliot
for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
In one breath, I can say that we are God, but in another I have to say that we aren't deities. -- Alanis Morissette
Universal deities ... never seem to smile. Not in any culture. What's the point of having omnipotence if you don't enjoy it? -- Jack McDevitt
Here Jove with Hermes came; but in disguise Of mortal men conceal'd their deities; One laid aside his thunder, one his rod -- Ovid
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
If Israel is to please the Lord fully, they will live lives that are as distinctive among the nations as their Lord is different from pagan deities. -- Max Anders
Unlike many deities of the ancient Near East, the God of Israel shared his power with no female divinity, nor was he the divine husband or lover of any. -- Elaine Pagels
Gods are called many by the error of some who worshipped many deities, thinking as they did the planets and other stars were gods, and also the separate parts of the world. -- Thomas Aquinas

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