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“She was the Goddess Who Must Not Be Named; those who sought her never found her, yet she was known to come to the aid of those in greatest need. And, then again, sometimes she didn't. She was like ...”
“Whereas the Agricultural Revolution gave rise to theist religions, the Scientific Revolution gave birth to humanist religions, in which humans replaced gods.”
“If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another”
“It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but the...”
“The gods grant nothing more than life,So let us reject whatever lifts us To unbreathable heights, Eternal but flowerless.”
“Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.”
“Gods are great," said Atsula, slowly, as if she were imparting a great secret. "But the heart is greater. For it is from our hearts they come, and to our hearts they shall return...”
“He is tolerated by the gods, perhaps because his stratagems and plans save them as often as they get them into trouble.Loki makes the world more interesting but less safe. He is the father of monst...”
“In school, we learned about the world before ours, about the angels and gods that lived in the sky, ruling the earth with kind and loving hands. Some say those are just stories, but I don't believe...”
“in the linked arms of Bacchus and Aphrodite.”
“They are coming to teach us good manners!" I replied in English. "But they won't succeed, because we are gods.”
“What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were never meant to be, but because we were always meant to be?”
“Heartily know, when half-gods go, the gods arrive.”
“The old gods of revenge, the Furies, who are all women, put the family ahead of all other values; the new gods, mostly men, are for detached universal law that makes no exception for particular ind...”
“If they are gods, why do you lament them? If you lament them, you must no longer regard them as gods.”
“Joe has sense enough to knowHe is a god.So many gods don't know.”
“It is the distinction between transpersonal and interpersonal relationships with deities which sets naturalistic polytheism apart from neopolytheism. Interpersonal relationships are between two or ...”
“My gods are not tame. They do not always come when they are called.This is not a failure of ritual or a weakness of belief. It is the nature of my gods. I would no more expect a god to show up in m...”
“Faith should mean something. Gods... should stand for something, not chop and change with every breeze that blows. Gods should be worshipped for the truths they represent, not what party favours th...”
“My gods are not always like human beings. Sometimes my gods are like mountains, sometimes they are like mist. Sometimes I seek my gods in the forests, sometimes in ritual space or the beat of the d...”
