Gods - Quotes
My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God`s side, for God is always right.
Love is the ultimate expression of God's loyalty, purity, and mercy extended towards people.
Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan`s power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God`s child, and that we are God`s children also. There are no children of Satan, really.
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. Acceptance of the supernatural conveyed a great advantage throughout prehistory, when the brain was evolving. Thus it is in sharp contrast to biology, which was developed as a product of the modern age and is not underwritten by genetic algorithms. The uncomfortable truth is that the two beliefs are not factually compatible. As a result those who hunger for both intellectual and religious truth will never acquire both in full measure.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
To mortal eyes, you, Hope, do seem
a form divinely sweet;
but eyes of gods can pierce the dream
and see your blind deceit.
Unhappy men in times of ill
create you for their easing;
and as their Guardian Angel still
they worship without ceasing.
Why do you flatter me with praise?
Why do you then deride me?
Why in my bosom do you raise
a dubious heart to chide me?
Stay far and fair beyond my reach,
as first my soul you greeted!
I had depended on your speech,
but you have ever cheated.
All of God's creation with timechanges and surely ends,
Only my love like the fires of hell
has no end, for it is burningly burns.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience - and laughter.