Welcome to Gods Quotes, a page dedicated to exploring the wisdom, insight, and inspiration derived from various deities across cultures and religions. Throughout human history, gods and goddesses have been revered as symbols of power, guidance, and spirituality. Their stories, teachings, and philosophies have shaped civilizations and influenced countless individuals on their journeys of faith and self-discovery.
In the tapestry of religious beliefs, gods represent the embodiment of virtues, values, and ideals that resonate deeply within the human psyche. From the compassionate teachings of Buddha to the mighty thunderbolts of Zeus, each deity offers a unique perspective on life, morality, and the universe. Whether through ancient scriptures, oral traditions, or modern interpretations, the words attributed to these divine beings continue to offer solace, enlightenment, and profound truths to seekers of all walks of life.
On this page, you’ll find a collection of quotes attributed to gods from various mythologies and religions. These quotes encapsulate timeless wisdom, profound insights, and stirring messages that transcend cultural boundaries. Whether you seek guidance, motivation, or simply wish to ponder the mysteries of existence, the quotes featured below are sure to spark contemplation and reflection. Feel free to copy them, adorn them with images, or embellish them with stylish fonts to enhance their impact and share them with others on your journey of spiritual exploration and growth.
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings – stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility. Tom Hiddleston
Religion is like a personal computer. You let people in if you want to… We’re all gods. Jay-Z
Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark. Empedocles
Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along. Terry Pratchett
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods. Confucius
For millennia, men have enslaved women and attempted to appropriate female creative power, re-casting themselves as gods and creators. This assault continues today in the forms of ruthless wealth and mineral extraction, genetic engineering, mass surveillance, and war mongering. Anohni
If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods’ bodies the same shape as their own. Xenophanes
Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly. Democritus
The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship – that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods. Dallas Willard
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. Robert Louis Stevenson
‘Frankenstein’ was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That’s a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order. Benedict Cumberbatch
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whenever the strength of God is not recognized as the source of our strength, we are breaking the First Commandment: Do not have any gods before me. John Piper
One whom the infernal gods of Hannibal will cause to be reborn, terror of mankind; never more horror nor worse days in the past than will come to the Romans through Babel. Nostradamus
There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually. Robert Anton Wilson
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. Aristotle
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. Thomas Jefferson
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity. Jean Cocteau
You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings. Jordan Peterson
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. Aldous Huxley
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods. Socrates
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed. Emil Cioran
Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness. Buddha
Leave the rest to the gods. Horace
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Nearer the gods no mortal may approach. Edmond Halley
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. Epicurus
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. Aleister Crowley
Covid-19 teaches us that we are all global citizens connected by a single virus that recognises none of our natural or man-made diversity: not the colour of our skin, nor our passports, or the gods we worship. Abiy Ahmed
All of the Antilles, every island, is an effort of memory: every mind, every racial biography culminating in amnesia and fog. Pieces of sunlight through the fog and sudden rainbows, arcs-en-ciel. That is the effort, the labour of the Antillean imagination, rebuilding its gods from bamboo frames, phrase by phrase. Derek Walcott
Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved. Alexander the Great
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. Oscar Wilde
Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought. Charles Spurgeon
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. Algernon Charles Swinburne
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. Joseph Campbell
It is clear that it is not man who has created the universe – whether you believe in God or in gods or deny any divine presence – man cannot alter the laws that govern the universe without damaging it. Sean MacBride
The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us. Frank Shorter
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. Jean Rostand
Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don’t believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof? Aristophanes
Were there no women, men might live like gods. Thomas Dekker
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts. Plotinus
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. Elbert Hubbard
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods. Maxine Hong Kingston
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are. Ovid
Like gods, we have created a new universe called cyberspace that contains great good and ominous evil. We do not know yet if this new dimension will produce more monsters than marvels, but it is too late to go back. David Horsey
Having raised humanity above the beastly level of survival struggles, we will now aim to upgrade humans into gods and turn Homo sapiens into Homo deus. Yuval Noah Harari
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man. Plato
Man, your head is haunted; you have wheels in your head! You imagine great things, and depict to yourself a whole world of gods that has an existence for you, a spirit-realm to which you suppose yourself to be called, an ideal that beckons to you. You have a fixed idea! Max Stirner
The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
We are the playthings of the gods. Roger Ebert
She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit. Sri Aurobindo
I came across few whites as a boy at Qunu. The local magistrate, of course, was white, as was the nearest shopkeeper. Occasionally, white travelers or policemen passed through our area. These whites appeared as grand as gods to me, and I was aware that they were to be treated with a mixture of fear and respect. Nelson Mandela
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. Albert Camus
Whom the gods love dies young. Menander
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. John Maynard Keynes
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
It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly. Julius Caesar
No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods. Demosthenes
Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts. Aeschylus
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. Hippocrates
Religion and gods and beliefs – for me, it all comes down to your brother. And your brother might be the brother in your family, or it might be the guy next to you in the foxhole – it’s about human connections. Eric Kripke
There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are – more humane. Friedrich Nietzsche
Gods don’t answer letters. John Updike
Gods always behave like the people who make them. Zora Neale Hurston
Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods. Dolly Parton
The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. E. O. Wilson
He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound. Plautus
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods? Thomas Babington Macaulay
We have a name for people who create universes – they’re called gods. There is no greater hubris than to think that we could take the place of godlike implications. Gregory Benford
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings. Soren Kierkegaard
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life. Lucan
I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. Ursula K. Le Guin
The gods love to punish whatever is greater than the rest. Herodotus
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little. Diogenes
After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied. Ernest Shackleton
As to gods, I have no way of knowing either that they exist or do not exist, or what they are like. Protagoras
If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates. Howard Zinn
My god is all gods in one. When I see a beautiful sunset, I worship the god of Nature; when I see a hidden action brought to light, I worship the god of Truth; when I see a bad man punished and a good man go free, I worship the god of Justice; when I see a penitent forgiven, I worship the god of Mercy. Edna St. Vincent Millay
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Mankind is like dogs, not gods – as long as you don’t get mad they’ll bite you – but stay mad and you’ll never be bitten. Dogs don’t respect humility and sorrow. Jack Kerouac
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport. William Shakespeare
A man of real purpose puts his faith in himself always. Sometimes he refuses even to put his faith in the gods. So from time to time, he falls into error. Isoroku Yamamoto
For thousands of years, humans believed that authority came from the gods. Then, during the modern era, humanism gradually shifted authority from deities to people. Yuval Noah Harari
When men make gods, there is no God! Eugene O’Neill
You know that neither numbers nor strength give the victory, but that side which, with the assistance of the gods, attacks with the greatest resolution is generally irresistible. Xenophon
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. Lin Yutang
India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire. Mark Twain
Fear created the first gods in the world. Caecilius Statius
I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion. Themistocles
Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Alexander Pope
Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods. Imogen Cunningham
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest. Sophocles
I’m against any religion, and Communism and Nazism – they’re both equally religions. They’re just replacement gods. Lemmy
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. Plato
Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain. Friedrich Schiller
What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods. George Bernard Shaw
No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshipped; no other man has been so devoutly loved. John Knox
It is my belief that all gods are stories, or at least the ideas behind stories, but stories or ideas that have become in some way almost alive and aware. Alan Moore
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising. Cyril Connolly