Quotes about Gods

The gods help them that help themselves.

This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back. That I must have the courage to let them come and go. That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women. There is my creed.

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to plague us; the dark and vicious place where thee he got cost him his eyes

We would have to think the gods had no minds, to pray for murderers.

Oh where is the noble face of modesty, or the strength of virtue, now that blasphemy is in power and men have put justice behind them, and there is no law but lawlessness, and none join in fear of the gods?

If the gods do a shameful thing, they are not gods.

Verily we must believe the Gods are senseless, if we feel well disposed to murderers.

There are always those to whom all self-revelation is contemptible, unless it ends with a noble thanks to the gods for the Unconquerable Soul.

The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength.

Hail to you gods…On that day of the great reckoning.Behold me, I have come to you,Without sin, without guilt, without evil,Without a witness against me,Without one whom I have wronged….Rescue me, protect me,Do not accuse me before the great god!I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands.

Do you want me to say that men create gods to enforce their definitions of good and evil?

How persistent it is, this demand that our gods be perfect. The Greeks were much more reasonable about such things.