#god

Just as a son, to be a son of man, must be of the same nature and spirit of his father; so with the sons of God, and so it will be with all who are born of the spirit of God. ↗

— Elias Hicks

#father #god #his #just #man

O that our hearts were enlarged in love to God, that we might turn inward, to the blessed comforter, that the blessed Jesus said the Father would send. ↗

— Elias Hicks

#comforter #enlarged #father #god #hearts

Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves. ↗

— Elias Hicks

#certainly #christian #god #love #neighbour

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#centuries #danger #deaths #drama #expanding

In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#different #different faiths #disparate #dreams #faiths

The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason that gods were invented was because they were basically larger versions of ourselves. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#any #basically #because #characters #gods

The first thing is, jazz is one of the few things to let you know that there is a God and there is a creation. ↗

— Billy Higgins

#few #few things #first #first thing #god

The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#created #damage #day #declares #demanded

God knows, we don't want prayer. ↗

— Oliver North

#knows #prayer #want

And you know what? If there is a God, and it's that same God who's so eager to have temples built in honor of his greatness, and wars fought over him, and people dropping to their knees telling him what a wonderful, magnificent being he is? If this all-powerful, all-knowing creature for some reason just can't get by without my worship? Then let him give me some proof. Or at least get over himself if I decide to go out and get some. ↗

— Robin Wasserman

#religion #religion