Words matter. These are the best Gods Quotes from famous people such as Eldridge Cleaver, Hippocrates, Anita Brookner, Ben Nicholson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
All the gods are dead except the god of war.
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don’t win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
The latest page I’ve been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who’s indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that.
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
The Igbo used to say that they built their own gods. They would come together as a community, and they would express a wish. And their wish would then be brought to a priest, who would find a ritual object, and the appropriate sacrifices would be made, and the shrine would be built for the god.
When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.
Even if you don’t believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a god or gods should pose no threat to you.
One is struck in the study of saints, angels and gods by a pattern that seems quaint and harmless. Yet, it is so common that I know there must be a deeper meaning. There always seem to be guardians and spirits of doors, bridges, exits and entranceways.
Why should the televised stuff be only about pro gamers? For me it’s more fascinating to see who’s going to be the next god of gods than watching some pro gamer.
One of the reasons people find me a believable actor is that I don’t seem like one of the gods from Olympus. I seem like someone who was lucky enough to be let into Olympus.
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
I call Algonquin Books ‘the gods and goddesses of publishing.’ Not only did they give me a career, they care deeply about every writer in their flock.
Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.
No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I’ll get extremely technical, and other times I’ll just kind of go with the gods of music.
Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!
He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
I delight to lodge in such temples as are not regularly kept closed. None of the gods reject me; they make me partner of their roof.
The long march of Western civilization from pantheons of gods for every taste to one God for all has been thrown into reverse by celebrity worship to give us a plethora of ancient deities to follow.
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
The story of ‘Prometheus’ is the idea that if you’re given a gift from the gods, do not abuse it, and do not think you can compete.
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.
I suppose movie theaters are the churches of the modern age, where we gather reverently to worship the tinsel gods of Hollywood.
Religion and gods and beliefs – for me, it all comes down to your brother. And your brother might be the brother in your family, or it might be the guy next to you in the foxhole – it’s about human connections.
Were there no women, men might live like gods.
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?
All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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.
Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don’t believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
My original goal was to get into the Top 100. I listened to every song in the Top 100 every day. I knew them all – this is where the gods reside.
Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don’t go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart’s. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.
My god is all gods in one. When I see a beautiful sunset, I worship the god of Nature; when I see a hidden action brought to light, I worship the god of Truth; when I see a bad man punished and a good man go free, I worship the god of Justice; when I see a penitent forgiven, I worship the god of Mercy.
Whenever the strength of God is not recognized as the source of our strength, we are breaking the First Commandment: Do not have any gods before me.
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.
In our eyes, heroes, gods, masters do not exist. We love and respect every musician, whether from the past, the future, or… someone who doesn’t yet exist… just as much as birdsong interests us.
Though I don’t have any serious argument with Neil Gaiman’s ‘American Gods’, I believe that Americans cease to be Europeans – the land makes them become Americans. You see it happening all the time when you travel around America.
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings – stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
The gods help them that help themselves.
After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.
I see myself as a spiritual person, but I don’t think anyone should claim proof of a god. No one can prove it. That’s why I don’t claim to know whether there are one, many or no gods.
In Bengal, Hindus are known to crack jokes at the expense of their gods and goddesses and that’s what I did.
And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
Men create the gods in their own image.
My grandma always had two gods: Jesus Christ and the United States of America. I was no different, and neither was anyone else I knew.
Those whom the gods love grow young.
To a degree, the Greek and Roman mythological heroes are just the first superheroes. They appeal to children for much the same reason. These gods and heroes may have powers, but they get angry and they do the wrong thing. They are human too.
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.
As to gods, I have no way of knowing either that they exist or do not exist, or what they are like.
How do you explain a person like Asha Bhosle? A star or a super star or just someone from the Gods.
Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.
A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance – this peak of ecstasy.
Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.
The beautiful thing about ‘American Gods’ is that it’s very simple at its core.
Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first started telling stories.
Sometimes I rant, in a comical way, about how the gods give with one hand and take with the other.
Just being in the industry that I’m in, you get people building up your ego – ‘Oh, you guys are the best, you guys are gods.’ So I started believing the hype – ‘Yes, I am a god!’
