As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.
John Hales
Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
Ambrose Bierce
Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity.
H. P. Blavatsky
Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
Honore de Balzac
Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
Ambrose Bierce
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
Dag Hammarskjold
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
Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
Ambrose Bierce
My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.
John Henrik Clarke
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
Francis Bacon
Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.
Rebecca H. Davis
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
Calvin Coolidge
Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.
Max Beckmann
That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.
Charles Eastman
The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.
William Robertson Smith
The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
David Herbert Lawrence
When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
Frank Sinatra
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