Deity
The collection of attributes which make up the nature of a god; divinity; godhead; as, the deity of the Supreme Being is seen in his works.
A god or goddess; a heathen god.
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Deity Quotations
When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
Frank Sinatra
Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
Ambrose Bierce
Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
Ambrose Bierce
Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
Ambrose Bierce
Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
Honore de Balzac
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
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
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
Calvin Coolidge
The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
David Herbert Lawrence
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
Deity Translations
deity in German is Gottheit
deity in Spanish is deidad
deity in Swedish is gudom
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