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“When human beings banish God from the world, they make Gods of themselves.”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Be careful what you do, Or Mumbo-Jumbo, God of the Congo, And all of the other Gods of the Congo, Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you.”
Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931) said by 1931 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Theism (from 'theos', 'god' in Greek) is the view that the universal order is based on a hierarchical relationship between humans and a small group of of eternal entities called gods.”
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Euryalus, is it the gods who put this fire in our minds, or is it that each man's relentless longing becomes a god to him?”
Allen Mandelbaum (1926–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To worship our lord and celebrate our nation at the same place is not only our right, it is our duty... America had worshiped other Gods and called it multiculturalism. We’d endorsed perversion and called it an alternative lifestyle....This evil is all around us....(Politics is) a never-ending struggle … until the rapture. (to a “God and Country Rally” at Wichita’s Summit Church in June 2015)”
Mike Pompeo (born 1963) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in “This Evil Is All Around Us” Trump’s pick for the CIA, Mike Pompeo, sees foreign policy as a vehicle for holy war, by Michelle Goldberg, Slate (12 January 2017)
“Atheists are often charged with blasphemy, but it is a crime they cannot commit... When the Atheist examines, denounces, or satirises the gods, he is not dealing with persons but with ideas. He is incapable of insulting God, for he does not admit the existence of any such being... We attack not a person but a belief, not a being but an idea, not a fact but a fancy.”
George William Foote (1850–1915) first seen 1882 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Who Are The Blasphemers?" (June, 1882), p. 112
“In the first chapter of Genesis it is made evident that absolutely nothing, except God, has any claim to divinity; even the sun and the moon, supreme gods of the neighbouring peoples, are set in their places between the herbs and the animals and are brought into the service of mankind.”
Reijer Hooykaas (1906–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Buddhism cannot, therefore, strictly be called a religion because it is neither a system of faith and worship, nor "the outward act or form by which men indicate their recognition of the existence of a God or gods having power over their own destiny to whom obedience, service, and honor are due.”
Narada Maha Thera (1898–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A thousand years later we still use a form of the original Aztec name... coyotl, pronounced COY-yoht, accent of the first syllable... Their rich mythology produced numerous coyote gods... , or "Venerable Old Coyote"... sounds so much like the widespread North American god-avatar... that the empire-minded Aztecs may have borrowed him from tribes far northward...”
Dan Flores (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The conqueror entered the city and its vicinity was freed from idols and idol-worship; and in the sanctuaries of the images of the gods, mosques were razed by the worshippers of the one God”.”
Hasan Nizami (died 1217) said by 1217 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: -- Taj-ul-Maasir: Hasan Nizami quoted in: Qutab Minar & Adjoining Monuments: Archeological Survey of India, 2002 p 31. also in Balakrishna, S., Lessons from Hindu History in 10 Episodes (2020)
“She shivered and turned away. These things I have seen in my life, she said. Someday a gentle God will grant me ignorance. Do you worship gods? I said, still watching the golem burn. Not lately, said Korinyes.”
J. M. McDermott (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am asking you to help me. Our mutual master would stride naked into the desert, trusting in God and in his own brilliance to shield him from the sun. But the desert knows only that it is. Neither gods nor cleverness mean anything to it.”
Judith Tarr (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My husband Rt Hon Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, the DG Campaign for the president is working tirelessly but I want you even when this programme is over to pray for him because of the too many eyes that are on him not by any fault of his but because Gods favour is upon him. That the will of God will be done in Nigeria and that no man will take his position or take away what belongs to him.”
Judith Amaechi (born 1970) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Judith begs women to pray for husband in 2019.
“To lose the ability to see with the eye of tawhid means to fall into seeing with the eye of shirk, or associating other gods with God. If the Qur’an considers unrepented shirk the one unforgivable sin, this is no doubt because it entails an utter distortion of human understanding, a corruption of the human fitra, and an obscuration of the intelligence that is innate to every human being.”
William Chittick (born 1943) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul, (2007) p. 47.
“The god Khnum is depicted... on his potter wheel... creating the body of the and his ka and his eternal soul by petrifying, by using clay. ...[H]e kneads humanity and the gods with clay and silt. ...[T]his is the Genesis that we are accustomed to read in the Bible, and it is also the type of Genesis that is depicted in the Quran. ...The ka is the soul in eternal stone.”
Joseph Davidovits (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[F]or god in the creation, he carves mankind and the other gods in his body, the mountain. The creation is the divine incarnation in carved stone.”
Joseph Davidovits (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Even the devastated destitute will tithe to co-modified gods, sure in the theatrics of frothing messengers, hope is being dolled out. Investing in an eternal future? I do not have a coin to spare. Not now, maybe later, when all is quiet and normal, I will evaluate the idea of a Banker God created in the fearful image of man.”
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ḫumbaba, the guardian of the cedar forest, placed there by the gods, is not truly a god but a demon with a monstrous appearance, with a frightening face, cruel and ferocious like his master Enlil. Someone wanted to see in this demonic figure, sometimes invoked to scare children, the personification of a volcano. (p. 117)”
Giuseppe Furlani (1885–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Among all the gods of the Babylonian-Assyrian pantheon he was the one who had the most widespread and long-lasting cult. It is already mentioned in the private documents of the ancient dynasties of Babylon, from which it appears that the god was venerated together with Sin and Samas. All the monarchs of the Babylonian empire competed in paying homage to him. (p. 88)”
Domenico Bassi (1875–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The head of the Belvedere Apollo presents characters that connect to the school of Scopa. The god has shot an arrow and his gaze is frowning; but he is both passionate and restless. The gods, in Hellenistic art, no longer know Olympian serenity; even if victorious and omnipotent, they are afflicted by some cures. (p. 70)”
Salomon Reinach (1858–1932) said by 1932 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have in our midst someone who is supposed to be a living god, one who is omnipotent and omniscient, an emperor who is supposed to realize the will of the gods. Yet his children are crying because of hunger, suffocating to death in the coal mines, and being crushed to death in factory machines. Why is this so? Because, in truth, the emperor is a mere human being.”
Kaneko Fumiko (1903–1926) said by 1926 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What is that thing?” Quentin said. “This?” Betsy held up the knife, studying its edge. “This is why I’m here. This is what I’ve always wanted. This is a weapon for killing gods.” “Why would you want to do that?” “Have you ever met a fucking god?” “I guess I can see your point.”
Lev Grossman (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was a gentle custom of the ancients to number amongst the gods those heroes by whose genius and greatness of soul unknown lands were discovered. Since we, however, only render homage to one God in Three Persons, and consequently may not adore the discoverers of new lands, it remains for us to offer them our admiration.”
Peter Martyr d'Anghiera (1457–1526) said by 1526 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: First Decade, Book I (Tr. F. A. MacNutt, 1912)
“One doom waits all — art, speech, law, gods, and men, Forests and mountains, stars and shining sun, — The hand that made them shall unmake again, I curse them and they wither one by one.Waste altars, tombs, dead cities where men trod, Shall roll through space upon the darkened globe, Till I myself be overthrown, and God Cast off creation like an outworn robe.”
Frederick George Scott (1861–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Where wildness has been wilderness shall be, But give God time; and life is but a span, Nine inches, while before it and behind Stretches the garden of the cosmic gods.”
Philip Henry Savage (1868–1899) first seen 1895 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Solitude", l. 97; First Poems & Fragments (1895), p. 54
“Assyrian sources preserved the Lullubean word kiurum ‘god’ which can be regarded as an adoption of PII *kura- (cf. OInd sura-, Avestan süra-), the Old Indian and Old Iranian correspondents of which were still applied to denote some gods in Vedic and Avestan times.”
János Harmatta (1917–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Two people within the last month have brought their idols and desired to be known as believers in the God of gods,” she wrote on October 10, 1887. “I shall keep them to show to friends in America as the first trophies of my Congo work.”
Louise Celia Fleming (1862–1899) said by 1899 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hospitality has been enshrined by many religions and cultural practices. It comes from the idea of the Greek gods to be able to visit mortals using a human guise -of travellers and foreigners- and be welcome and protected by the hosts. A reader is a god in disguise, and we want to be sure we are honouring them as we would like to be honoured.”
Beatriz Acevedo wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(To the Roman emperor) Why do you want to lose this crowd with the worship of gods? Learn about God, Creator of the world, and His only Son Jesus Christ, who freed humanity from hell with the cross!”
Catherine of Alexandria (282–305) said by 305 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I feel that human complexity is of such nature that no God can explain it. And moreover, man tries to invent gods in order to confront chaos, in order to live in the environment of a suffocating or asphyxiating nature that offers little in the way of epiphany. Thus, I am a person of religious impulses, of great emotion, but at the same time I am endowed with the serenity of disbelief.”
Nélida Piñon (1937–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Be strong to love, O Heart! Love knows not wrong; Didst thou love — creatures even, Life were not long; Didst thou love God in heaven, Thou wouldst be strong!”
Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Words are mighty, words are living: Serpents with their venomous stings, Or bright angels, crowding round us, With heaven's light upon their wings: Every word has its own spirit, True or false, that never dies; Every word man's lips have uttered Echoes in God's skies.”
Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hours are golden links, God's token Reaching heaven; but one by one Take them, lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done.”
Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your petitioners are Atheists and they define their lifestyle as follows. An Atheists loves himself and his fellow man instead of a god. An Atheist thinks that heaven is something for which we should work for now - here on earth- for all men together to enjoy.”
Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1919–1995) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: MURRAY v. CURLETT, Petition for Relief, 1959
“Ah, Los Angeles! Dust and fog of your lonely streets. I am no longer lonely. Just you wait, all of you ghosts of this room, just you wait, because it will happen yet, and that Camilla, she can have her Sammy in the desert, with his cheap short stories and stinking prose, but wait until she has a taste of me, because it will happen, as sure as there's a God in heaven.”
John Fante (1909–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If indeed there be a god in heaven.”
Andrew Lang (1844–1912) first seen 1879 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Andrew Lang (1879), with S. H. Butcher, prose translation of Homer's Odyssey, Book XVII, line 484.
“So I really don't care what [God's] got to say about anything, and if he came clumping down from heaven right now in a big pair of hobnail boots, waving the book of Judges in my face, I'd simply tell him what I tell every other evangelising prick I meet: "No thanks. I'm not interested in your phony salvation. I'd prefer damnation. Now piss off, I've got some sinning to do.”
Pat Condell (born 1949) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: God the psycho" (2 February 2008)
“Heaven from the hopeless doubter The true believer makes: Against the darkness outer The light God's likeness takes.”
Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nice to meet you, where you been? I could show you incredible things. Magic, madness, heaven, sin. Saw you there and I thought. Oh my God, look at that face. You look like my next mistake. Love's a game, wanna play?.”
Taylor Swift (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God is everywhere present by His power. He rolls the orbs of heaven with His hand; He fixes the earth with His foot; He guides all creatures with His eye, and refreshes them with His influence; He makes the powers of hell to shake with His terrors, and binds the devils with His word.”
Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) said by 1667 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Where storm-born shadows hide and hunt I knew thee, in thy glorious youth, And loved thy vast face, white as truth; I stood where thunderbolts were wont To smite thy Titan-fashioned front, And heard dark mountains rock and roll; I saw the lightning's gleaming rod Reach forth and write on heaven's scroll The awful autograph of God!”
Joaquin Miller (1837–1913) first seen 1890 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Epigraph, Ch. 1 : Mount Shasta; this appears as "To Mount Shasta" in In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890), p. 126
“Love of the sacred implies love of God, and inversely, the sacred is the perfume of Heaven.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man has the duty to resign himself to the will of God, but by the same token he has the right to transcend spiritually the suffering of the soul to the extent that this is possible for him; and this, precisely, is not possible without a prior attitude of acceptance and resignation, which alone brings out fully the serenity of the intelligence and which alone opens the soul to help from Heaven.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The problem with Christian belief--I mean real Christian belief, the belief that there is a God and a devil and a heaven and a hell--is that it is not a fashionable thing to believe.”
Don Miller (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The desire of love, Joy: The desire of life, Peace: The desire of the soul, Heaven: The desire of God … a flame-white secret forever.”
William Sharp (writer) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Desire, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Settle it therefore in your minds, as a maxim never to be effaced or forgotten, that atheism is an inhuman, bloody, ferocious system, equally hostile to every useful restraint and to every virtuous affection; that, leaving nothing above us to excite awe, nor round us to awaken tenderness, it wages war with heaven and with earth: its first object is to dethrone God, its next to destroy man.”
Robert Hall (1764–1831) said by 1831 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God will take you through hell, just to get you to heaven.”
T.I. (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“. . . I believe that the annihilation of even one soul spells a defeat of God’s purposes, a denial of Christ’s teaching and a closure of heaven against those who love the lost soul.”
Leslie Weatherhead (1893–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The life of Jesus was a translation into humanity, of the life of God, as far as man is capable of discerning the latter. In the same way, the church is not something born on earth which grew to divine proportions and significance, but a translation into terms of space and time of the divine community eternally existent in heaven.”
Leslie Weatherhead (1893–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thou lovest like an infinite God when Thou lovest; Thou movest heaven and earth to save Thy loved ones. Thou becomest man, a babe, the vilest of men, covered with reproaches, dying with infamy and under the pangs of the cross; all this is not too much for an infinite love.”
François Fénelon (1651–1715) said by 1715 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source