Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic. Worse, this Semitic deity was reputed to be jealous (what was there to be jealous of if there were no other gods?), vindictive, and altogether foul-tempered. If you didn't serve the nasty fellow, the Romans would burn your house down. If you did serve him, you were called a Christian and got to burn other people's houses down.
Tom RobbinsTags: christianity religion jealousy gods christ romans vindication
I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men.
Tom RobbinsWhile it was well within their powers to toy around with mortals like hapless puppets, deeper human workings remained elusive to them. The heart, the soul, the very foundation of man’s nature—those were mysteries to the gods, for all their manipulations.
Hayden ThorneTags: philosophy gods
Writer is always alone. But every author is a creator, and gods are lonely.
Lara BiyutsI do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.
Louisa May AlcottTags: men gods louisa-may-alcott jo-s-boys
The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.
Oscar WildeTags: inspirational intelligence power wealth youth curse oscar-wilde gods brains stupid-people dorian-gray good-looks
There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren’t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.
Mercedes LackeyTags: inspirational truth gods life-philosophy
The Gods know what it is to be eternal, and they love to toy with mortals who use absolutes.
Josephine AngeliniTags: gods
It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first hand the equivalent of a stick with a fizzing fuse and Acme Dynamite Company written on the side. It's more interesting, and doesn't take so long.
Terry PratchettMan is not defiled by his impurities. It is the other man pointing out his impurities to him, whom he is defiled by. Is there anything anyone can do, to become righteous, anyway? God made us impure. If he had a problem with that, He would have made us gods, instead.
C. JoyBell C.Tags: inspirational humanity people god spiritual inspirational-quotes humanism hypocrisy spirituality gods righteousness hypocrites righteous impurity impurities
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