Sentences with phrase «small god»

if we accept the «religion about Jesus» without discretion, then the constructed mask is inevitable and the threat of those who wear a different mask soon follows... it makes for a very small God
In this episode, Andy Weir recommends Small Gods and Louise Erdrich recommends The Death of the Heart.
-- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
Satanism is premised on a small God who lives in a sheltered place and who is constantly under threat from without, but not on God Who stands in the breach.
By using the word «god» without adjectives to describe both a deist, weak, small god and a full - blown god is the confusing element.
He was neither a great god, nor a small god, nor a sub-god, nor even an auxiliary of God.
We all want to be small gods — and that is in itself idol worship and breaking the commandment to worship the one same God.
But feelers said he was prevailed upon by Buhari who saw in him the needed discipline to salvage the organisation which is supposed to be making money for us all but has become a machine making money for some small gods.
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