#gods

There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God’s sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience... ↗

— John Owen

#gods-sovereignty #obedience

But I came to learn that God never shows us something we aren't ready to understand. Instead, He lets us see what we need to see, when we need to see it. He'll wait until our eyes and hearts are open to Him, and tehn when we're ready, He will plant our feet on the path that's best for us...but it's up to us to do the walking. ↗

— Immaculee Ilibagiza

#holocaust

I don't hold with paddlin' with the occult," said Granny firmly. "Once you start paddlin' with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when you start believing in spirits you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are you're believing in gods. And then you're in trouble." "But all them things exist," said Nanny Ogg. "That's no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages 'em. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#gods #occult #encouragement

Aretmis gripped her bow. “Let us pray I am wrong.” Can goddesses pray? ↗

— Rick Riordan

#goddess #goddesses #gods #percy-jackson #percy-jackson

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#anybody #belong #boy #genius #go

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#atheism #atheist #christianity #death #god

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#ancient #catastrophes #desolation #despair #diseases

The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#cooperate #divine #each #eight #enlightened

If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#given #gods #had #intended #people

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#even #fate #favorites #generous #gods