#gods

The gods too are fond of a joke. ↗

— Aristotle

#gods #joke #too

It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical. ↗

— Clive Barker

#believe #desire #dreams #goddesses #gods

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. ↗

— Charles A. Beard

#dark #destroy #enough #exceedingly #fertilizes

Joseph’s trials were unjust, inexplicable and heartrending. Yet Joseph knew God, and he knew that God had a plan. ↗

— K. Howard Joslin

#injustice #trials #faith

I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#limits #men #men

the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#nature

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#look #pleasure #sinners

Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts. ↗

— John Stuart Blackie

#beasts #drink #gods #milk #tea

No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods. ↗

— Demosthenes

#apply #friends #gods #help #himself

The gods are watching, but idly, yawning. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#idly #watching #yawning