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“But when you have order, you don't need Gods. When everything is well ordered and disciplined then nothing is unexpected. If you understand everything,' I said carefully, 'then there's no room left for magic. It's only when you're lost and frightened and in the dark that you call on the Gods, and they like us to call on them. It makes them feel powerful, and that's why they like us to live in chaos.”
― Bernard Cornwell, Enemy of God

“The pinecone is a fearsome tool of destruction!

-Bacchus”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

“Gods? Don't let that impress you. Anyone can be a god if they have enough worshippers. You don't even have to have powers anymore. In my time I've seen theatre gods, gladiator gods, even storyteller gods - you people see gods everywhere. Gives you an excuse for not thinking for yourselves.
God is just a word. Like Fury. like demon, Just words people use for things they don't understand. Reverse it and you get dog. It's just as appropriate.”
― Joanne Harris, Runemarks

“The gods are real crazy when it comes to prayers. They listen to some sometimes and do not listen to some sometimes. But the whole world prays, nonetheless-All the time”
― APORVAKALA, Life... Love... Kumbh...

“Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.”
― Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost

“When gods die, self-respect buds', murmured Orland Fank. 'Gods and their examples are not needed by those who respect themselves and, consequently, respect others. Gods are for children, for little, fearful people, for those who would have no responsibility to themselves or their fellows.”
― Michael Moorcock, The Quest for Tanelorn

“We are our own gods.”
― Zeena Schreck

“Not that I'm complaining. It was better than my old dream, where Harma Dogshead was feeding me to her pigs."
"Harma's dead." Jon said.
"But not the pigs. They look at me the way Slayer used to look at ham. Not to say that the wildlings mean us harm. Aye, we hacked their gods apart and made them burn the pieces, but we gave them onion soup. What's a god compared to a nice bowl of onion soup? I could do with mine myself.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“I happen to be partial to humans - most, anyway. Clowns, not so much. Those evil bastards never stop smiling.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, Accidentally Married to...a Vampire?

“When we tell our stories, the gods hear our sorrows.”
― Cathy Ostlere, Karma

“I wish for today and dream of yesterday. If the gods should hold me in their favor, then I shall hope for tomorrow.”
― Nadege Richards, Burning Bridges

“We create our own future by our own beliefs, which control our actions. A
strong enough belief system, a sufficiently powerful conviction, can make
anything happen. This is how we create our consensus reality, including our
gods.”
― Brian Herbert, House Harkonnen

“Но императорите, както и боговете,не могат да разчитат само на лоялността. Тя е леконравна, ако не бъде скрепена с договор и подплатена със страх. И продажна - ако не бъде възнаградена.”
― Силвия Томова, Тит от Никомедия

“Don’t interfere with false gods, you’ll get the gold paint all over your hands.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“They are moved less by the direct presence of their gods than by the more indirect feeling that they would somehow like their gods to be present.”
― Daniel L. Pals, Eight Theories of Religion

“I took to the Kingswood the midsummer after the Dame died. I did not swear a vow, but I kept to myself just as strictly, living like a beast in the forest from one midsummer to the next, without fire or iron or the taste of meat. I lived as prey, and I learned from the dogs how to run, from the hare how to hide in the bracken, and from the deer how to go hungry.
In sorrow and pride I exiled myself to Kingswood. I shunned fire for I feared the kingsmen would hunt me down, and so by the way of cold and hunger I came near to refusing life itself. I never thought to anger or please a god by it.”
― Sarah Micklem, Firethorn

“We are pagans. We deify each other.”
― Lara Biyuts, The Dome

“We all think we are gods, when we are no more than gnats.”
― Caedem Marquez, A Boyfriend Before Christmas

“Sometimes I feel like I'm writing pornography in the notebook of the gods.”
― Grant Morrison, The Invisibles, Vol. 6: Kissing Mister Quimper

“But I found signs of their trespass: a burned patch planted with a fistful of grain, a tree felled or stripped of fruit, a deer strung up in a snare. I never saw a poacher. They were too cunning, and for cause: the foresters would take a man's hands and eyes and leave him to the mercy of the wolves for such an offense. It was bad enough to steal the king's game, but snares were an abomnination. The gods abhor weapons that leave the hand, coward' weapons such as javelins, bows and arrows, slings. No man or beast should die by such means.”
― Sarah Micklem, Firethorn