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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. -- Ambrose Bierce
Irreverence not only shows disrespect to Deity but also makes it hard for the Spirit to teach us the things we need to know. -- L. Lionel Kendrick
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
'Deity' will be a compelling and exciting thriller with complex and interesting characters. A neo-realistic style to story and images will take the audience deep into Calcutta's many different levels. A fascinating clash between American and Indian culture. -- Niels Arden Oplev
To pray is to have a conversation with Deity. This sacred and supernal communication with Heavenly Father is a divine and delicate process. This crucial communication should be conducted with great care and in compliance with sacred counsel. -- L. Lionel Kendrick
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
Nature is saturated with Deity. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Father-Mother is the name for Deity ... -- Mary Baker Eddy
Midway from Nothing to the Deity! -- Edward Young
Man, like Deity, creates in his own image -- Elbert Hubbard
Man, like Deity, creates in his own image. -- Elbert Hubbard
Faith lights us through the dark to Deity. -- William Davenant
The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity. -- William Rounseville Alger
A faithful friend is the true image of the Deity. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
An atheist's laugh 's a poor exchange For Deity offended! -- Robert Burns
The Saturnian Spirit, Satan...ensouls the...Primary Ray of Deity. -- Vera Stanley Alder
Analysis is carried into everything. Even Deity is subjected to chemical tests. -- James Russell Lowell
Distinguisht Link in Being's endless Chain! Midway from Nothing to the Deity! -- Edward Young
A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity -- Voltaire
The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity. -- George Herbert
Why seek the Deity further? Whatever we see is God, and wherever we go. -- Lucan
All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in Him again. -- Zoroaster
Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity. -- John Tillotson
A 'god' who's will is resisted, designs frustrated, and purpose checkmated, possesses no title to Deity. -- Arthur W. Pink
It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them. -- Tacitus
Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity? -- John Stuart Mill
Physical science has taught us to associate Deity with the normal rather than with the abnormal. -- William Edward Hartpole Lecky
That vague and wandering opinion of Deity is declared by an apostle to be ignorance of God: -- Augustine of Hippo
Uplifting traditions . . . that promote love for Deity and unity in families and among people are especially important. -- Donald L. Hallstrom
The heavens are nobly eloquent of the Deity, and the most magnificent heralds of their Maker's praise. -- James Hervey
Sienna, meet Zacharel. He's a warrior angel for the One, True Deity. Zacharel, meet Sienna. She's mine. -- Gena Showalter
A sense of Deity is inscribed on every heart. Nay, even idolatry is ample evidence of this fact. -- Augustine of Hippo
The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them. -- Joseph Addison
When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know. -- Mark Twain
OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury. -- Ambrose Bierce
Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity, Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, Weary bodies refresh and mollify. -- Ovid
How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity! -- Edward Young
If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity. -- Mahatma Gandhi
O unfathomable depth! O Deity eternal! O deep ocean! What more could You give me than to give me Yourself? -- St. Catherine of Siena
Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in. -- Mark Twain
Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification. -- John Hales
Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity. -- James G. Frazer
The Holy Bible is The only Holy Book that correctly reveals The Deity and The Humanity of Yeshua Ha-Mashiach The Lord Jesus Christ. -- Errol Anthony Smythe
It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
Where the unveiled glories of the Deity shall beat full upon us, and we for ever sun ourseves in the smiles of God. -- Ezekiel Hopkins
Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me. -- William Cowper
Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the Deity. -- Isaac Watts
If I could have my way I would place the Deity on half-pay as the Government of this Country did the subaltern officers. -- George Holyoake
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.
There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it. -- Mark Twain
Your woman wears underwear out in public," Sabin said. "Must be nice. How'd you manage that little miracle?" "Only the Deity knows. -- Gena Showalter
A Deity believed, is joy begun; A Deity adored, is joy advanced; A Deity beloved, is joy matured. Each branch of piety delight inspires. -- Edward Young
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
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
Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity. -- Joseph Addison
All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of the Deity housed in our bodies -- Josephus
Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity. -- Edward Gibbon
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
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
There is a spirit of resistance implanted by the Deity in the breast of man, proportioned to the size of the wrongs he is destined to endure. -- Charles James Fox
The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells, - there is no Deity. -- Reginald Horace Blyth
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
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
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
The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must change a monkey into a man. -- Louis Agassiz
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, Sr.
See, here's a shadow found; the human nature Is made th' umbrella to the Deity, To catch the sunbeams of thy just Creator; Beneath this covert thou may'st safely lie. -- Francis Quarles
By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake. -- George Eliot
Brethren, the Deity was not revealed to gratify our curiosity, or to increase our pride of intellect, but to bring us into relations of affection, submission, and communion with Him. -- Edward Norris Kirk
Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate. -- Ernest Hemingway
He that despairs degrades the Deity, and seems to intimate that He is insufficient, or not just to His word; and in vain hath read the scriptures, the world, and man. -- Owen Feltham
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
The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth; where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every subjugated passion, "like the wind and storm, fulfilling his word. -- Charles Caleb Colton
The American Revolution was the grand operation, which seemed to be assigned by the Deity to the men of this age in our country, over and above the common duties of life -- Patrick Henry
Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments the gods remain deaf to the agony of the human race. -- Emma Goldman
Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder.Another is Deity.The choice to be a fool is yours. -- Vera Nazarian
In my personal view, a failure to discover unimagined objects and answer unasked questions, once HST functions properly, would indicate a lack of imagination in stocking the Universe on the part of the Deity. -- John N. Bahcall
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
Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the Light The marrow in the bone We dreamed was safe. . . the blood in the veins, the sap in the tree Were springs of Deity. -- Edith Sitwell
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
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
Deity' will be a compelling and exciting thriller with complex and interesting characters. A neo-realistic style to story and images will take the audience deep into Calcutta's many different levels. A fascinating clash between American and Indian culture. -- Niels Arden Oplev
And yet this same Deity says to me, resist not evil; pray for those that despitefully use you; love your enemies, but I will eternally damn mine. It seems to me that even gods should practice what they preach. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
At one time kings were anointed by Deity, so the problem was to see to it that Deity chose the right candidate. In this age the myth is 'the will of the people' ... but the problem changes only superficially. -- Robert A. Heinlein
May every citizen ... have a proper sense of the Deity upon his mind and an impression of the declaration recorded in the Bible, 'Him that honoreth Me I will honor, but he that despiseth Me shall be lightly esteemed.' -- Samuel Adams
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer -- Bertrand Russell
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
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
Christ, by highest heaven adored. Christ, the everlasting Lord, Late in time behold Him come, Offspring of a virgin's womb. Veiled in flesh the Godhead see, Hail the incarnate Deity! Pleased as Man with man to dwell; Jesus, our Immanuel! -- Charles Wesley
Music is given of God to further his purposes. Sweet melodies mellow the souls of men and help prepare them for the gospel. After men receive the truth, songs of praise to Deity help to sanctify and cleanse their souls. -- Bruce R. McConkie
No parent can consistently teach faith in Christ who profanes the name of Deity. Profanity is never heard in the well-ordered home. Swearing is a vice that bespeaks a low standard of breeding. Blasphemous exclamations drive out all spirit of reverence. -- David O. McKay
The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as he was before he got religion, the other one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward. -- Mark Twain
I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity. -- Benjamin Franklin
I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience. -- George Washington
Mrs. O'Hair died horribly, a victim of the world she helped to shape. Without the Deity she fought so hard against, there is no right and wrong, increasingly people are ruled by their passions and humanity is a tragedy waiting to happen. -- Bill Murray
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
"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
Notwithstanding the poverty of my outside experience, I have always had a significance for myself, and every chance to stumle along my straight and narrow little path, and to worship at the feet of my Deity, and what more can a human soul ask for? -- Alice James
Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it is what I have steadfastly believed. -- Thomas Jefferson
You are one thing only. You are a Divine Being. An all-powerful Creator. You are a Deity in jeans and a t-shirt, and within you dwells the infinite wisdom of the ages and the sacred creative force of All that is, will be and ever was. -- Anthon St. Maarten
I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so- I don't know. I've not yet made any acquaintances among the angels. That comes later, whenever it please the Deity. I'm not in any hurry. -- Mark Twain
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws. -- Baron de Montesquieu
How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, how complicate, how wonderful is man! Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from nothing to the Deity! Dim miniature of greatness absolute! An heir of glory! A frail child of dust! Helpless immortal! Insect infinite! A worm! A God! -- Edward Young
Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life. On the contrary, in the abominable worship of atheism, human woes are the incense, death is the priest, a coffin the altar, and annihilation the Deity. -- FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life. On the contrary, in the abominable worship of atheism, human woes are the incense, death is the priest, a coffin the altar, and annihilation the Deity. -- FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures, or at least who are thought so, mistake suffering for sanctity, and think a sad face and a gloomy habit of mind propitious offerings to that Deity whose works are all light and lustre and harmony and loveliness. -- Sydney, Lady Morgan
If you are following Deity's plan for you, it isn't always the easy path; sometimes it's the hard one. So why follow? Because to do any less is to betray your own abilities and gifts, and the faith that Deity has in you. Who would do that willingly? -- Laurell K. Hamilton
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
The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity. -- D. H. Lawrence
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. -- Calvin Coolidge
Seven is the magic figure, because that's a symbolic figure of my favorite deity, Ogun. -- Wole Soyinka
Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. -- Ambrose Bierce
I want some fact-based evidence about where we came from. Things we consider mysterious need not be attributed to a deity. -- Greg Graffin
There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief in a deity. -- Mel Gibson
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
Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. -- Rebecca Harding Davis

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