fear in sooth holds so in check all mortals, becasue thay see many operations go on in earth and heaven, the causes of which they can in no way understand, believing them therefore to be done by power...
For the natural polytheist, whose gods arise in and from the natural material world, this challenge is not even always a metaphor. Our gods not only have transcendent eyes and metaphysical hands. They...
I don't know much about gods, but I think the river is a strong, brown god
There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods they have not forgotten this.
If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another
Gods fight, Ragnar went on earnestly, and some win, some lose. The Christian god is losing. Otherwise why would we be here? Why would we be winning? The gods reward us if we give them respect, but the...
He’d learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to whom on the godly side of things. After Tyson the Cyclops adopted him as a brother, Percy decided that that was about a...
The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more
Only meditation on God's word is capable of changing our way of thinking.
Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.
Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.
I need no master to punish me in order to behave as I ought. If I did, I would be no more than a child who obeys his father's rules only because he fears the whip, and not because he actually means go...
If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
A woman has her Juno, just as a man has his Genius; they are names for the sacred power, the divine spark we each of us have in us. My Juno can't get into me, it is already my deepest self. The poet w...
When gods die, self-respect buds', murmured Orland Fank. 'Gods and their examples are not needed by those who respect themselves and, consequently, respect others. Gods are for children, for little, f...
I'd rather die fighting over great poets than over gods.
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 know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.
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