#gods

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length? ↗

— Aeschylus

#gods #his #length #lifetime #pain

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof? ↗

— Aristophanes

#believe #gods #proof #shrines #surely

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. ↗

— Aristotle

#appearance #apprehensive #believing #consider #devotion

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. ↗

— Aristotle

#create #form #gods #image #life

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