It is time at last for all the gods to be silent.

Think of them like gods, Janice said, because that’s what they are. The nape of a human neck is especially easy to see through – that’s why they love it when we bow our heads....

With every sunrise, we get to choose … who we are, what we believe, and how we will live the life the gods have given us. We can’t always choose our circumstances. No. The Fates...

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

If you think it is spiritual to burn food in front of starving people in hopes that your gods will bring this back to you in triplicate, you are missing the point and sowing animosity...

I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades of fear, to stand erect and face the future with a smile. It...

I mean, it’s one thing saying you’ve got the best god, but sayin’ it’s the only real one is a bit of a cheek, in my opinion. I know where I can find at least...

It’s an already inside outside,The philosophers say it’s the soulBut it’s not the soul: it’s the animal or the man itselfIn its way of existing.

Man is not defiled by his impurities. It is the other man pointing out his impurities to him, whom he is defiled by. Is there anything anyone can do, to become righteous, anyway? God made...

There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.

Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.

Perhaps he still hopes. If there’s any justice in the Gods’ injustice, then may they let us keep our dreams, even when they’re impossible, and may our dreams be happy, even when they’re trivial….Every dream...

And when we say also that the Word, who is the first-birth of God, was produced without sexual union, and that He, Jesus Christ, our Teacher, was crucified and died, and rose again, and ascended...

We worship Him not because He is the best of our gods, but because He is, or was, the greatest killer among them.

I’m the idiot box. I’m the TV. I’m the all-seeing eye and the world of the cathode ray. I’m the boob tube. I’m the little shrine the family gathers to adore.’ ‘You’re the television? Or...

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

At a great distance appeared with the same pomp the sheep of Thebes, the dog of Bubastis, the cat of Phoebe, the crocodile of Arsinoe, the goat of Mendes, and all the inferior gods of...

You are one of those million attempts by God to change the world. Don’t waste it.

The real question is why you still believe in that invisible god when a true one stands before you?

I can taste fear, and lies, on a man’s skin, Cavrax.” The Master Priest whispered, watching the large pulse on the cleric’s neck beat like a caged thing begging for release. “You’re lying to me.

All the demons of Hell formerly reigned as gods in previous cultures. No it’s not fair, but one man’s god is another man’s devil. As each subsequent civilization became a dominant power, among its first...

Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can’t protect themselvse?

To Judaism Christians ascribe the glory of having been the first religion to teach a pure monotheism. But monotheism existed long before the Jews attained to it. Zoroaster and his earliest followers were monotheists, dualism...

You can’t see both sides of one coin at once, can you, child? The god of money always keeps a secret.The god of money was also the god of spies.

It appeared to the Elders that the people here would believe anything about themselves, no matter how preposterous, as long as it was flattering. To make sure of this, they performed an experiment. They put...

Nay, father. Some of us have been killing giants today and aren’t in the mood to have a tea party.- Thor, God of Thunder

Petronius was surely right in saying Fear made the gods. In primitive times fear of the unknown was normal; gratitude to an unknown was impossible.

Which reminded me…I still owed the gods a debt.”You’re a genius,” I (Percy) told Annabeth.

I’m so not okay.

I don’t hold with paddlin’ with the occult,” said Granny firmly. “Once you start paddlin’ with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when you start believing in spirits you start believing in demons,...

We create our own future by our own beliefs, which control our actions. A strong enough belief system, a sufficiently powerful conviction, can make anything happen. This is how we create our consensus reality, including...

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It’s part of our DNA. That’s why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look for the wider, bigger explanations for things.

I wonder how Admat can be everywhere. Is he in my sandal? Or is he my sandal itself? Why would a god bother to be a sandal? Does he wear shoes or sandals himself, invisible...

Love is whole. Love cannot be divided from itself. Love knows all paths, where even gods and cats are blind.

‘Are our gods better than Olaf’s god?’ Alfdis laughed. ‘That’s a silly question. Gods are gods. Our gods have been with us since the beginning of the world. We sacrifice to them, and they aid...

We do remember once we were wrong sacrificing everything for idols and stones likewise today for ghost and phantoms.

If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.

When he won, it proved that God was on his side. When he didn’t win, it meant that God wanted him to try harder.

There are many gods . . . gods of beauty and magic, gods of the garden, gods in our own backyards, but we go off to foreign countries to find new ones, we reach to...

Having spent all of my decision-making years as a Pagan of one stripe or another, I have long found it condescending at best to assume one cannot worship the old gods or believe in magick...

Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me — the fabled God of the three qualities of...

We read the pagan sacred books with profit and delight. With myth and fable we are ever charmed, and find a pleasure in the endless repetition of the beautiful, poetic, and absurd. We find, in...

‘The gods,’ he said. ‘Imprisoned in a thought. And perhaps they were never more than a dream.’

A kid thinking about fairy tales and believing in fairy talesActs like a sick god, but like a god.Because even though he affirms that what doesn’t exist exists,He knows things exist, that he exists,He knows...

It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.

Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? … Gods don’t think they can become men

You’re like a god from a Greek myth, Saiman. You have no empathy. You have no concept of the world beyond your ego. Wanting something gives you an automatic right to obtain it by whatever...