It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
Ovid
The gods behold all righteous actions.
Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.
Dolly Parton
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
The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
Plato
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
Plotinus
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Alexander Pope
He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'
Terry Pratchett
Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!
Jean Racine
Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.
Timothy Radcliffe