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" Quotes and Sayings About gods

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on Gods side, for God is always right.
Greatest Whether Concern God
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Creats Image Regard Mode
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The truth has to be melted out of our stubborn lives by suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, nothing tells us how things really are, nothing forces us to know what we do not want to know except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.

Truth Speak. Force Declare
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The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise.

Shape Strain Song Triumph
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
Blood God Wine Flower
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Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

Depend Eat God Chicken
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There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.

Among Mind Mortal Body
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.

Prove Exist Ancient Region
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Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent.

Beauty Local Deity Like
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Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

Impress People Effort Time
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Every creature reproduces after its kind. A dog gives birth to dogs, a cat gives birth to cats, a cow gives birth to cows, a monkey reproduces monkeys and a human reproduces humans. So when God gives birth, what do you think He’ll reproduce? gods, of course! When God created Man, He created him in His image and after His likeness. That’s why we look like Him; we have two hands the same way He has two hands. We have two legs, one head, one mouth, one nose, two ears and two eyes just like Him.

Creature Every Kind Birth
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What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death.

Express Reason Invent Imagine
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Those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires surrender unto demigods and follow the particular rules and regulations of worship according to their own natures.

Intelligent Stole Material Desire
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Calling God Good Hand
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When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

When Men Destroy Old
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I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

Gods Know Ought Whether
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It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Gods Little Men Want
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I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

About Am Artist Atheist
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The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

Gods Only Poets Interpreters
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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

A Good Man After Death Either
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Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

Advances Back Backwards Beginning
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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
Dead Except God Gods
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The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Arouse Being Ecstasy Envy
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No matter how angry the gods are, a lion cannot be used for sacrifice..no one can take your life no matter their precedent in the act of extinction.

Act Lion Life Angry
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Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

Computers Gods Like Lots
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Banish business, banish sorrow. To the gods belongs tomorrow.

Belongs Banish Sorrow Business
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A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
Man Moral Conscience Curse
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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

Board Easy God Gods
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From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.

Example Learn Despise Gods
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A man of real purpose puts his faith in himself always. Sometimes he refuses even to put his faith in the gods. So from time to time, he falls into error.

Always Error Even Faith
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It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.

Complete Crimes Fortune Gods
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As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

Boy Flies Gods Sport
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With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain

Stupidity Gods Struggle In-vain
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Whether or not they exist we are slaves to our gods.

Whether Exist Slaves Gods
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Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.

Solely Gods Cultures Power
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Anything Art Cunning Face
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There are those who believe destiny rests at the feet of the gods, but the truth is that it confronts the conscious of man with a burning challenge.

Believe Destiny Gods Truth
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Perfection shall remain the boring privilege of the gods, while our bungling, messy world every night shall be lived as if it were the last and every day as if it were the first.

Perfection Remain Privilege Gods
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Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

Bite Bitten Dogs Get
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Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

Achieve Argue Awakens Certain
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So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind Is all the sad world needs.

Many gods Creeds Wind Kind
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Where no gods are, spectres rule.

Gods Rule Where
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In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls.

Become Creative Decorating Eventually
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It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one's enemies with courage.
Courage Endure Enemies Face
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

After Among Because Bought
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You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it's not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there's been human beings.

Been Beings Cyberspace Different
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There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.

Become Devils Eventually God
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We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

About Atheists Believed Ever
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Gods can do anything. They fear nothing: they are gods. There is one rule, one Seal of Solomon that can confound a god, and to which all gods pay service, to the letter: when belief in a god dies, the god dies.

God Can do Anything Fear nothing
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If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

Beginning Believe Did End
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