You cannot change human beings, only God can.

Let a god change anything, and there will be reactions of evil as much as good. Only stupidity can be divine.

Between God and man there is and remains an eternal, essential, qualitative difference. The paradoxical relationship (which, quite rightly, cannot be thought, but only believed) appears when God appoints a particular man to divine authority, in relation, be it carefully noted, to that which has entrusted to him.

The real difference between God and human beings, he thought, was that God cannot stand continuance. No sooner has he created a season of a year, or a time of the day, than he wishes for something quite different, and sweeps it all away. No sooner was one a young man, and happy at that, than the nature of things would rush one into marriage, martyrdom or old age. And human beings cleave to the existing state of things. All their lives they are striving to hold the moment fast....Their art itself is nothing but the attempt to catch by all means the one particular moment, one light, the momentary beauty of one woman or one flower, and make it everlasting.

It has often been noted that gods could not exist without mortals and mortals could not exist without gods."
"Yet gods, it appears," said Corum, "can affect our destinies."
"And we can affect theirs, can we not?

You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.

But God doesn't change.'
'Men do, though.'
'What difference does that make?'
'All the difference in the world.

You cannot change anyone, but you can be the reason someone changes.

People don’t change to suit their god; they change their god to suit them.

Even the gods cannot change destiny.

Only art and science can raise men to the level of gods.

I don't think they can change their minds. When you get to that level of power and knowledge and perfection, the question of what you should do next gets increasingly obvious. Everything is very rule-governed. All you can ever do in any given situation is the most gloriously perfect thing, and there's only one of them. Finally there aren't any choices left to make at all."
"You're saying the gods don't have free will."
"The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals.

But have you really understood how powerless the gods are, when the lowest slave may exclude them from his heart? And if from his heart, then from the world as well, for the gods may not reach in except through living souls. If the gods could seize passage from anyone they wished, then men would be mere puppets. Only if they borrow or are given will from a willing creature, do they have a little channel through which to act.

There is no wisdom of man that can change men or change nations; it is the power and wisdom of God that can.