#deity

That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#approaches #believed #claim #creative #degree

My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people. ↗

— John Henrik Clarke

#another #assigned #become #child #deity

Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#impiety #irreverence #toward #your

The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#destroys #dissolution #nation #national #religion

The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I realized I was God... or an artist and a writer. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#artist #color #create #creating #creation

We are our own gods. ↗

— Zeena Schreck

#gods #occult #religion #religion

In the desert, the only god is a well. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#desert #desolation #faith #fountain #god

Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#contained #deity #infinite #ourselves #space

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. ↗