50 Quotes About Deities
- Author Ashwin Sanghi
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In Kolkata is a temple where the deity worshipped is Amitabh Bachchan. The daily aarti is performed to the chanting of the Amitabh Chaleesa. And people still ask, “Could our mythological heroes be based on actual people who once lived?
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- Author Michael Ruse
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I mean, I think even God would agree with this at this point. God’s existence isn’t important. It’s what we do with what we’ve got that counts.
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- Author Nigelcat1
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Now Harry,” she began, “Magic is in itself a form of religion, but there are powerful beings who can be considered as gods and goddesses. Herne the Hunter, Morrigan, Cernunnos, Epona are a few British deities just like Odin, Thor, Zeus, Hera, Isis, Osiris, etc. are deities of other times and countries. Even the more modern gods like the Christ, Buddha, Allah, etc. are powerful beings or representations of the ‘Uncaused Cause’ as the creator of all things is sometimes called.
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- Author Mary Renault
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It is grief to a man to look on mysteries he does not understand. To yield unquestioning, not to know too much; that is the wisdom of the god.
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- Author Jay Lake
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A goddess is the sum of all her believers, all the prayers and hopes and curses and despair ever uttered in her name.
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- Author Daniel Peter Buckley
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Our journey is one of discovery on Sicily.Like the past Greek writers.orators,historians and philosophers we are all searching for answers on Earth
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- Author P. Sufenas Virius Lupus
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Let us not make a procrustean bed of trans issues and force deities of the past onto it, let us instead awaken trans and other gender-variant deities from their own beds! There is no possibility of blasphemy against existing powers and their human followers if the deities in question are our own, and we never have to "take them back," because they have always been ours to begin with!
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- Author Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
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Power deities, for all their strength, are very much like humans, They are subjects to periods of despair and are not free from the crippling consequences of emotions, For over two decades Tibetans were forbidden from holding any religious ceremonies or prayers. No prayer flags, incense or ceremonies were offered to the deities and demi-gods of the region. This neglect broke their hearts and they became bedraggled and weak.
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- Author Dada Bhagwan
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Mantras are to be recited together. Mantras are an instrument to please the celestial deities.
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