God Quotes

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.

When I Asked God for Strength He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face When I Asked God for Brain & Brawn He Gave Me Puzzles in Life to Solve When I Asked God for Happiness He Showed Me Some Unhappy People When I Asked God for Wealth He Showed Me How to Work Hard When I Asked God for Favors He Showed Me Opportunities to Work Hard When I Asked God for Peace He Showed Me How to Help Others God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted He Gave Me Everything I Needed.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.

Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.

In the faces of men and women, I see God.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we look at ourselves and wonder who we are and how we got that way. Only one thing about change remains constant...it is always painful

I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.

God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

A man with God is always in the majority.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

You can turn off the sun, but im still ganna shine!

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judges over experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please? These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin of commonwealths and the subversion of the state.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

God is in the details.

There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.

God is not a Christian, God is not a Jew, or a Muslim, or a Hindu, or a Buddhist. All of those are human systems which human beings have created to try to help us walk into the mystery of God. I honor my tradition, I walk through my tradition, but I don't think my tradition defines God, I think it only points me to God.

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.

Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!

Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.

My God, thank you. Thank you very much. I'm almost embarrassed by the response, but when I see this, I know that the twenty five years that I've spent trying to make you happy every night of your life was worth every damn minute of it.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

The Master of Lifes been good to me. He has given me strength to face past illnesses, and victory in the face of defeat. He has given me life and joy where other saw oblivion. He Has given new purpose to live for, new services to render and old wounds to heal. Life and love go on, let the music play.

Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it IS true, you've gained God, heaven, and everything else. If it's false, you've lost nothing, but you've had a good life marked by peace and the illusion that ultimately, everything makes sense. If you bet that Christianity is not true, and it's false, you've lost nothing. But if you bet that it's false, and it turns out to be true, you've lost everything and you get to spend eternity in hell.

Nature is the art of God.

Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.

Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!

Trust in God - she will provide.

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.

Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.

Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?'

When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our love of the Lord will govern the claims for our affection, the demands on our time, the interests we pursue, and the order of our priorities.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

Pray often; for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

As God once said, and I think rightly...

I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it."

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.

God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

Duty is ours; the consequences are the Lord God's

We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.

Look down at me and you see a fool, Look up at me and you see a god, Look straight at me and you see yourself.

Divine love always has met and always will meet every human need.

He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find him the rest of the day

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.

The Lord was pleased to strengthen us, and remove all fear from us, and disposed our hearts to be as useful as possible.

The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Woman was God's second mistake.

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.

If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.

I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our Revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them.

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.

Everything I did, all my actions, all of the problems I had I dedicate to God and to Chile, because I kept Chile from becoming Communist.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

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.

There is but One God, His name is Truth, He is the Creator, He fears none, he is without hate, He never dies, He is beyond the cycle of births and death, He is self illuminated, He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning, He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True, He is also True now.

God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God . to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Being at one with nature.

He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done.

If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

Love beauty; it is the shadow of God on the universe

I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial. Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering your son to appease your own vanity. Love is not hatred or wrath, consigning billions of people to eternal torture because they have offended your ego or disobeyed your rules. Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

Poor Mexico. So far from God and so close to the United States.

Christians were never meant to be normal. We've always been holy troublemakers, we've always been creators of uncertainty, agents of dimension that's incompatible with the status quo; we do not accept the world as it is, but we insist on the world becoming the way that God wants it to be. And the Kingdom of God is different from the patterns of this world.

We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.

God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.

Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.

No matter what storm you face, you need to know God loves you. He has not abandoned you.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.

Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter.

In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

Work is not primarily a thing one does to live but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.

Times change. God doesn't, but times do. We learn and grow, and the world around us shifts, and the Christian faith is alive only when it is listening, morphing, innovating, letting go of whatever has gotten in the way of Jesus and embracing whatever will help us be more and more the people God wants us to be.

The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts.

The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone.

The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.

Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

My prayer today is that we will feel the loving arms of God wrapped around us, and will know in our hearts that He will never forsake us as we trust in Him.

Einstein, stop telling God what to do!

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.

There is more grace in God's heart than there is sin in your past.

Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.

My only wish isto transform friends of God into friends of man, believers into thinkers, devotees of prayer into devotees of work, candidates for the hereafter into students of the world, Christians who, by their own procession and admission, are half animal, half angel into persons, into whole persons.

We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

In the day of prosperity, we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only One.

There is no God. But it does not matter. Man is enough.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.

The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.

Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.

What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.

But if God wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.

Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.

My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.

I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!

God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.

If God created shadows it was to better emphasise the light.

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.

In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bis.

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description.

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.

We don't ask any people to throw away any good they have got; we only ask them to come and get more. What if all the world should embrace this Gospel? They would then see eye to eye, and the blessings of God would be poured out upon the people, which is the desire of my whole soul.

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets —no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

God is a philosophical black hole-the point where reason breaks down.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

God is the perfect poet.

Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won't accept your thanks for murder.

The more we depend on God the more dependable we find He is.

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.

Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.

It may look impossible, but God can do the impossible. Just because you don't see anything happening doesn't mean God is not working

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

God knows best. We can trust Him with our lives as well as our eternal souls. He does not take something from us without filling that spot with something just as good—- and because it's from Him, even much better

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you.

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.

There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting.

We stand strong together - as Americans - many cultures, races and faiths, but one nation under God.

God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.

God will begin to prosper you, for money always follows righteousness.

O my Brothers! love your Country. Our Country is our home, the home which God has given us, placing therein a numerous family which we love and are loved by, and with which we have a more intimate and quicker communion of feeling and thought than with others; a family which by its concentration upon a given spot, and by the homogeneous nature of its elements, is destined for a special kind of activity.

Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.

There's no God higher than truth.

Though troubles assail And dangers affright, Though friends should all fail And foes all unite; Yet one thing secures us, Whatever betide, The scripture assures us, The Lord will provide.

Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

God is definitely out of the closet.

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.'

Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, the latter has the largest congregation.

It's a wonderful feeling when your father becomes not a god but a man to you - when he comes down from the mountain and you see he's this man with weaknesses. And you love him as this whole being, not as a figurehead.

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

Philosophies change by the day while God never changes, simply because, being perfect, He does not have to change!

Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one to thank.

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

I wish the state of enthusiasm I am now in may last, for today I FELT there is a God. I have been devotional and my mind has been led away from the follies that it is mostly wrapped up in.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

Jews talk a lot about God. But actually their god, just like Marx said, is money. Cash!

Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employs a million.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, 'Shake well before using.' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

If the Almighty himself played the violin, the credits would still read 'Rubinstein, God, and Piatigorsky', in that order.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

Love ceases to be a demon only when it ceases to be a god.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to the world.

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Pray, and let God worry.

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.

God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.

God doesn't believe in the easy way.

Every morning I wake up and thank God.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

When I see the American flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.'

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

You are the God-being that is here to create life, to breathe soul into your body, to walk this world as your own source of power, love, worth and life.

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

This is and has been the Father's work from the beginning-to bring us into the home of His heart.

A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.

The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.

I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to say.

When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God, why was I here? What was my purpose? Surely, it wasn't just to win three gold medals. There has to be more to this life than that.

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.

I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

To suggest that the merciful, longsuffering, gracious and loving God of the Bible would invent a dreadful doctrine like Calvinism, which would have us believe it is an act of 'grace' to select only certain people for heaven and, by exclusion, others for hell, comes perilously close to blasphemy.

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

If homosexuality were normal, God would have created Adam and Bruce.

From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.

Oh, my God, this amazing cool breeze is coming through my window and the sun is shining. I'm happy.

For god is nothing other than the eternally creative source of our relational power, our common strength, a god whose movement is to empower, bringing us into our own together, a god whose name in history is love ...

I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.

These figures emphasize how soft people's commitment to God is. Americans are willing to expend some energy in religious activities such as attending church and reading the Bible, and they are willing to throw some money in the offering basket, but when it comes time to truly establishing their priorities and making a tangible commitment to knowing and loving God, most people stop short.

A thick skin is a gift from God.

I have always respected everyone's religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused people.

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to Hell?

Blame is for God and small children.

A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.

How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?

To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.

I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family.

Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.

Dear God, I pray for patience and I want it right now.

Since man created government to help secure and safeguard [inalienable] rights [from God], it follows that man is superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.

None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.

Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.

Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.

Thy way, not mine, O Lord, however dark it be; lead me by thine own hand; choose out the path for me.

According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.

The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for one's self.

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisible Art; - I believe that this Art proceeds from God, and lives within the hearts of all illumined men; - I believe that he who once has bathed in the sublime delights of this high Art, is consecrate to Her for ever, and never can deny Her; - I believe that through Art all men are saved.

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls.

I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.

It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice.

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.

Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.

It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher.

Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.

God helps those who help themselves.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

God makes stars. I just produce them.

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

In America, money takes the place of God.

God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends.

God's finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.

God is a verb, not a noun.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind.

God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.

True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.

Friends are God's apology for relations.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.

Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.

God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.

It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.

Humanity is the sin of God.

I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God, but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do.

If God had wanted us to play football in the sky, He'd have put grass up there.

I just thank God I can make a living doing something I enjoy as much as I do playing music.

God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.

My God! Middle Earth does exist!

God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

I am God and my lawyers are my 12 disciples...do not f**k with me!

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

I'm officially middle-aged. I don't need drugs anymore, thank God. I can get the same effect just by standing up real fast.

Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

God is not a celestial prison warden jangling the keys on a bunch of lifers—he's a shepherd seeking for sheep, a woman searching for coins, a father waiting for his son.

The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.

Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.

In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of the earth

The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.

God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.

Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?

Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty, remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.

God has a sense of humor. If you don't believe me, tomorrow go to wal-mart and just look at people.

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: - To speak of bloody power as right divine, And call on God to guard each vile chief's house, And for such chiefs, turn men to wolves and swine.

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.

An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.

God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.

Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Act, and God will act.

The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being interfered with by prayers.

I believe that the people of Israel are the chosen people of God.

I'd die if I was Madonna. I'd die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don't know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me.

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people.

The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.

The room where I am lodging is stupendous. Thank God I am as fit as a fiddle.

Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid.

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine!'.

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.

You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.

If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

May God have mercy on my soul for the deaths on my name and for the treachery I committed. Betrayal of God and country, what a sad and horrible thing it is.

God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.

And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.

The course of Nature is the art of God.

God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh.

The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God's mind — a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you've just made a down payment on a house.

When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away

God will forgive me. It's his job.

Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

If you love god, burn a church.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

All I can say about life is, 'Oh God, enjoy it!'

If we are going to save this country, if we are going to reestablish that belief in God, it's up to us. If we don't do it, who will?

Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?

God loves us the way we are, but too much to leave us that way.

There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are.

Once you've danced, you always dance. You can't deny the gifts that God sends your way

Oh! God! That bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap!

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.

People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.

He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.

There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

The kernel is the belief that God is love and, in Catholicism, God's love is present in the world. It is in the sacraments, in the Eucharist, in our families, in our friends, in our neighborhood, and forgiveness in the touch of a friendly hand, in a rediscovered love God is there.

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

My God, he looks like he's beating a chicken.

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I'm happy with that.

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.

Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people He gives it to.

He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.

Great writers are the saints for the godless.

Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men.

Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

God made the country, and man made the town.

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.

In spite of the way many people are turning away from God, not for other gods, but for no god; in spite of the mess we are making of this beautiful Planet Earth which God has given us, God still loves the world.

Serenity and inner beauty come when we wait upon God. "Waiting" like that is not merely wasting time.

God seeks comrades and claims love, The devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

God... sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it was good, that nothing was lacking, that it could not have been made better.

God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.

Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

And Kate Hepburn-God, she's beautiful, God, she plays golf well, God, she can get anyone in the world on the phone, God, she knows what to do all the time, God, she wears clothes well.

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.

Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

We say the name of God, but that is only habit.

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth.

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

The best thing of all is God is with us.

Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.

You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! The British journalist. But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to!

It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

Ladies and gentlemen, well may we say 'God Save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General. The proclamation you have just heard was countersigned Malcolm Fraser, who will go down in history as Kerr's cur.

We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

Who says I am not under the special protection of God?

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.

The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.

When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me.

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

When following God, Zero we never find.

By night an atheist half believes in a God.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.

This world is bad enough maybe; We do not comprehend it; But in one fact can all agree God won't, and we can't mend it.

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

One on God's side is a majority.

What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.

We don't call a man mad who believes that he eats God, but we do the one who says he is Jesus Christ

It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe to God for any blessing, is, that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.

God does arithmetic.

God love the car. It has shown the naked heart that lives in all of us. Man invented the car but the car — out of pure malevolence no doubt — changed the history of the world by reinventing man.

There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.

If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets an R rating; but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.

I thank You, God, in Heaven, for friends.

Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

I have patterned myself after my father and God.

America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shinning sea!

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

I'm religious. I think this is something God had planned for me.

You don't decide to build a church because you have money in the bank. You build because God says this is what I should do. Faith is the supplier of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?

The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.

God promises a safe landing but not a calm passage.

If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?

We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust." Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

I worshipped money so much that it ruined my life. Money is not my god. I just want to manage His money for Him, for the poor people, the lost kids. I just love everybody.

If we're not growing, we must feel guilty, because we are not fulfilling Christ's demand.

Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government.

God became man; and the love, woman. (Dieu s'est fait homme; - Et l'amour, femme.)

God knows no distance.

How to make God laugh: Tell him your future plans.

I know God won't give me anything I can't handle;I just wish he didn't trust me so much.

God watches over drunks and third baseman.

Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.

Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.

You can only get next to God through the effort of preparation. To experience the uncreated, the state of awareness will have to be held for several minutes. You are then between time and the time-less - waiting for the unknown, which will come but cannot be willed.

Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time - is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.

Christ - an anarchist who succeeded.

There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at hand, a truth more profound than any that underlies our somewhat enfeebled ideas of universal benevolence and the determined progress of the race.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

We shall meet again. I have believed in God. I obeyed the laws of war and was loyal to my flag.

Beer is God's way of telling us that he loves us and wants us to be happy.

I could prove God statistically.

I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

When I'm judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.

The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen

God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted.

I am not God, but I am my creator.

God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.

God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.

You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.

God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain

Misfortune was my god.

Man is programmed to find the programmer.

And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love!

The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

God buries His workmen but carries on His work.

And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.

The main doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God

God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.

A God all mercy is a God unjust.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using 'an outside agency' and subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf.

The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.

God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.

There's nothing worse than someone coming up to me and going Oh God, I really love your hair.

You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.

He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

Time is a kindly God.

I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.

I know what the world exists for, but I know not how it came into existence. I see the design, but not the designer. I understand the question, but not the questioner.

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.

To believe in God is to yearn for His existence, and furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

O miserable man, what a deformed monster has sin made you! God made you "little lower than the angels"; sin has made you little better than the devils

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.

Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.

To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.

If God does not exist, everything is permitted.

God has many names, though He is only one Being.

The gaurdian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Everyone keeps saying, "Oh my God, oh my God, how intimidating." It's like saying, "How could you date Jennifer Aniston after she's been with Brad Pitt?" I don't care.

Cat would be god for elephant, if it ate mouse in front. (Chat serait dieu de l'éléphant, - S'il mangeait la souris devant.)

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place.

The world is a navy in an empty ocean.

God is a cloud from which rain fell.

God is busy and has no time for you.

They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.

I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.

I earnestly pray that the Omnipotent Being who has not deserted the cause of America in the hour of its extremest hazard, will never yield so fair a heritage of freedom a prey to 'Anarchy' or 'Despotism'.

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.

Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.

God creates men, but they choose each other.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.

It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something

God delays but doesn't forget

Thanks for comin out, God bless you, good night... What of fame? Everyone knows your face, the world screams your name And never again, are you alone..

God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

The million little things that drop into your hands, The small opportunities each day brings, He leaves us free to use or abuse, And goes unchanging along His silent way

The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill.

The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us.

After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the end of its calculations will find written on a sheet of paper in letters of fire that energy is equal to the mass multiplied by the square of the velocity of light. The new kings of the world will live tranquilly for a long time, confining themselves to devouring each other and being parasites among each other on a cottage industry scale.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Servant of God, well done, well hast thou fought The better fight.

To be right, a person must do one of two things: either he must learn to have God in his work and hold fast to him there, or he must give up his work altogether. Since, however, we cannot live without activities that are both human and various, we must learn to keep God I everything we do, and whatever the job or place, keep on with him, letting nothing stand in our way.

As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.

No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion

Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.

Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Heaven means to be one with God.

God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.

One and God make a majority.

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art, so I will walk fearlessly with Him.

I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.

In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which He also gave us. A man who has not learned to say, No -who is not resolved that he will take God's way, in spite of every dog that can bay or bark at him, in spite of every silvery choice that woos him aside-will be a weak and a wretched man till he dies.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

God respects me when I work, but He loves me when I sing.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

God Himself chasteneth not with a rod but with time.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details.

Beauty is the gift of God

God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see a possibility of hope.

I try to work with God as a partner.

Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.

God has entrusted me with myself.

In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.

My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'.

You moon, have you done something wrong in heaven / That God has hidden your face?

All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first.

Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.

There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not.

I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of me.

God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.

The Word of God is the universal and invisible Light, cognizable by the senses, that emits its blaze in the Sun, Moon, Planets, and other Stars.

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.

I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor

If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him