{"quotes":[{"text":"Although Jesus Christ was Himself the Creative Deity, by whom all things were made, as man He humbled Himself--set aside His divine prerogatives and walked this earth as man -- a perfect demonstration of what God intended man to be--the whole personality yielded to and occupied by God for Himself.","author":"W. Ian Thomas","tags":["deity","divine","humbled","jesus-christ","man","personality"],"id":16238,"author_id":"W.+Ian+Thomas"},{"text":"In the desert, the only god is a well.","author":"Vera Nazarian","tags":["deity","desert","desolation","faith","fountain","god","need","oasis","religion","source","water","well","worship"],"id":29718,"author_id":"Vera+Nazarian"},{"text":"If there's a god, it knows exactly what it would take to convince me and has refused to provide it. In fact, it has gone to great lengths to hide any evidence of its existence. That doesn't seem like a deity that wants to be worshiped to me.","author":"David G. McAfee","tags":["atheism","burden-of-proof","deism","deity","evidence","gods","theism"],"id":35438,"author_id":"David+G.+McAfee"},{"text":"Then come. Let me send you to see if you have lived your life serving a deity or a dream.","author":"Shaun Hick","tags":["deity","dream","fight","fighting","fighting-words","god","threat","threats"],"id":36538,"author_id":"Shaun+Hick"},{"text":"For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam’s front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters?And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable.","author":"Vera Nazarian","tags":["amiable","aspiration","common-sense","creation","deity","divinity","evil","god","good","imagination","insanity","inspiration","multiplicity","order","sanity","scandal","scandalous","world"],"id":46357,"author_id":"Vera+Nazarian"},{"text":"It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they get it? We know now, that it requires a great number of years to form a language; that it is of exceedingly slow growth. We also know that by language, man conveys to his fellows the impressions made upon him by what he sees, hears, smells and touches. We know that the language of the savage consists of a few sounds, capable of expressing only a few ideas or states of the mind, such as love, desire, fear, hatred, aversion and contempt. Many centuries are required to produce a language capable of expressing complex ideas. It does not seem to me that ideas can be manufactured by a deity and put in the brain of man. These ideas must be the result of observation and experience.","author":"Robert G. Ingersoll","tags":["adam-and-eve","aversion","bible","brain","centuries","contempt","deity","desire","experience","expression","fable","fantasy","fear","garden-of-eden","growth","hatred","ideas","impressions","knowledge","language","love","myth","observation","savage","senses","serpent","the-bible"],"id":53988,"author_id":"Robert+G.+Ingersoll"},{"text":"Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["deities","deity","disguise","divine","divine-self","divinity","divinity-within","fool","god","godlike","godliness","godly","godly-reference","gods","higher-self","man"],"id":80797,"author_id":"Ralph+Waldo+Emerson"},{"text":". . . In all parts of our globe, fanatics have cut each other's throats, publicly burnt each other, committed without a scruple and even as a duty, the greatest crimes, and shed torrents of blood . . . Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under divers names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty. We find, in all the religions, 'a God of armies,' a 'jealous God,' an 'avenging God,' a 'destroying God,' a 'God,' who is pleased with carnage, and whom his worshippers consider it a duty to serve. Lambs, bulls, children, men, and women, are sacrificed to him. Zealous servants of this barbarous God think themselves obliged even to offer up themselves as a sacrifice to him. Madmen may everywhere be seen, who, after meditating upon their terrible God, imagine that to please him they must inflict on themselves, the most exquisite torments. The gloomy ideas formed of the deity, far from consoling them, have every where disquieted their minds, and prejudiced follies destructive to happiness.","author":"Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach","tags":["atheism","blood","carnage","consoling","crime","cruel","death","deity","divine","fanatics","god","gods","happiness","jealous","killing","massacre","meditating","monotheism","murder","polytheism","religion","sacrifice","savage","selfish","war"],"id":83903,"author_id":"Paul+Henri+Thiry+d%27Holbach"},{"text":"I know there is only oneGovernorOfDeities.","author":"Toba Beta","tags":["deity","god","governor","life"],"id":88431,"author_id":"Toba+Beta"},{"text":"Perhaps we are like cells in the mind of God, contributing to celestial functions beyond our ken, just as our cells unknowingly fashion our thoughts and actions. Perhaps the laws of nature order and constrain even the living and eternal Deity from which they spring, and of which they are a part.","author":"Robert Christian","tags":["deity","humanistic","philosophy-of-life"],"id":90559,"author_id":"Robert+Christian"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":42,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}