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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

God did not create us, nor did He wish us to be created. We are the work of a lesser deity, a demiurge, who wrongly believed himself to be God. — Lawrence Durrell

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! ... Midway from nothing to the Deity! — Edward Young

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out. — Frank Sinatra

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

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. — Honore De Balzac

There is known to be a particular deity for drunkards and lovers. — Alexandre Dumas

Man, like Deity, creates in his own image. — Elbert Hubbard

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

Nature is saturated with Deity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination. — Norman Douglas

Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity. — John Tillotson

Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess. — Pliny The Elder

Groundless superstition ill befits an army; valor is the only deity that rules in the warrior's breast. — Silius Italicus

The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet. — Plato

I was adept at fooling the deity. I prayed immediately after all crimes until eventually prayer and crime became indistinguishable to me. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The man who, despite the teaching of Scripture, tries to pray without a Savior, insults the deity. — Charles Spurgeon

I am not insulted by billions of Christians, Muslims and Jews believing there is a God and praying to this nonexistent deity on a regular basis. — Tariq Ali

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

She longs for fresh air and common sense, and is not willing to be a dolt for the sake of being called a deity. — Kate Gordon

Yeah, I'm great. Nothing like witnessing a death match between gods when I'm trying to get some Cheetos. -Deacon — Jennifer L. Armentrout

To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen. — Richard Lewontin

sorry, luv, all is far in war/ — Jennifer L. Armentrout

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

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

The ultimate profanity is to invoke any deity in support of death or destruction in any form, particularly war. — Dee Hock

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

In the desert, the only god is a well. — Vera Nazarian

no such affluence of wisdom and knowledge, and truth and holiness, could flow from any other source than Deity, — Octavius Winslow

Faith lights us through the dark to Deity. — William Davenant

A 'god' who's will is resisted, designs frustrated, and purpose checkmated, possesses no title to Deity. — Arthur W. Pink

For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity. I acknowledge no other God but the one God of truth and righteousness. — Mahatma Gandhi

It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them. — Tacitus

Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 very act of compiling information about your Deity can be its own prayer. It — Kenaz Filan

Father-Mother is the name for Deity ... — Mary Baker Eddy

If we are looking to employ logic to infer a deity, we fall into absurdity. — Andrew Furst

Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained. — Max Beckmann

Why seek the Deity further? Whatever we see is God, and wherever we go. — Lucan

In women he doesn't trust! He is an atheist. — Ljupka Cvetanova

The Saturnian Spirit, Satan ... ensouls the ... Primary Ray of Deity. — Vera Stanley Alder

The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them. — Joseph Addison

That vague and wandering opinion of Deity is declared by an apostle to be ignorance of God: — Augustine Of Hippo

If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity. — Mahatma Gandhi

I've always accepted some kind of deity, especially as a songwriter. — Neil Diamond

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. — Ambrose Bierce

Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity. — Leonard Cohen

Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception. — Charles Darwin

Midway from Nothing to the Deity! — Edward Young

Prayers aren't for the deity ... They're for you, to recommit yourself to what you believe. — James A. Owen

We should worship as though the deity were present. — Confucius

If morality truly stemmed from an all-powerful deity, it would not change over time. — Armin Navabi

He who searches shall find the deity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification. — John Hales

The truth is that the Man who walked among us was a demonstration, not of unveiled deity, but of perfect humanity. — A.W. Tozer

Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity. — Helena Blavatsky

When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know. — Mark Twain

When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument. — Ben Okri

A deity who remains silent and invisible should not get angry or surprised at doubt of his reality. — Graham Kendall

There is a God! And his name be Awesome, the Mighty. — Brian Clevinger

Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight. — John Ruskin

Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil. — Dan Simmons

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

Distinguisht Link in Being's endless Chain!
Midway from Nothing to the Deity! — Edward Young

Isn't that funny, that deity is passe but the attributes and implications of deity linger
— Gregory Maguire

The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity. — William Robertson Smith

The Christless cults and deity-dishonoring mushroom religions of this midnight hour tempt the Lord God. Will no one sound the alarm? — Leonard Ravenhill

Jesus - "the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily" (Colossians 2:9). — John Piper

Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy. — George Carlin

Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic. — Terence McKenna

Fabricating answers to unanswerable questions is the domain of religion. A deity model is not the default alternative to a scientific mystery. — Graham Kendall

Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding. — Sophocles

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

A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity. — Voltaire

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.

Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at. — Pliny The Elder

What would it feel like to be ravished by a god, to hold a deity. — David Vann

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 present is a powerful deity. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in. — Mark Twain

"God save our gracious Queen": Why would we invoke a non-specific deity to bail out these unelected spongers? — Bill Bailey

Even Ramanama is by itself lifeless, but it has become a living symbol of the deity because millions of people have consecrated it. — Mahatma Gandhi

There is a deity within us who breathes that divine fire by which we are animated. — Ovid

I think God is everything. Human beings created the punitive, vengeful deity who considers us to be innate sinners. — Alanis Morissette

A living planet is a much more complex metaphor for deity than just a bigger father with a bigger fist. — David Brin

A religion that needs state power to enforce obedience to its beliefs is a religion that has lost confidence in the power of its Deity. — Russell D. Moore

In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display. — Chuck Palahniuk

The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity. — Mahatma Gandhi

Invoke not reason. In the end it is too small a deity. — Alan Moore

Sienna, meet Zacharel. He's a warrior angel for the One, True Deity. Zacharel, meet Sienna. She's mine. — Gena Showalter

A faithful friend is the true image of the Deity. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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

I want some fact-based evidence about where we came from. Things we consider mysterious need not be attributed to a deity. — Greg Graffin

Fashion is a capricious deity ... — Mary Russell Mitford

Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity, Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, Weary bodies refresh and mollify. — Ovid

Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent. — C. A. Bartol

Ayer may be considered a practical atheist: one who sees no reason to worship an invisible deity. — James A. Haught

O unfathomable depth! O Deity eternal! O deep ocean! What more could You give me than to give me Yourself? — St. Catherine Of Siena

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool. — Ralph Waldo Emerson