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Best Quotes About God (Top 100)
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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.
C.S. Lewis -
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson -
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
JRR Tolkien -
We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be
C.S. Lewis -
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Chuck Palahniuk -
God has no religion.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
Corrie Ten Boom -
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
Dorothy Parker -
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Abraham Lincoln -
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell -
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
Robert Frost -
God doesn't take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.
Pat Summitt -
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
To love another person is to see the face of God.
Victor Hugo -
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Elbert Hubbard -
Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.
Harper Lee -
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
John Lennon -
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
Victor Hugo -
The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As longs as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
Anne Frank -
I talk to God but the sky is empty.
Sylvia Plath -
I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.
Bob Marley -
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
Epicurus -
When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.
Paulo Coelho -
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
Anne Lamott -
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
Abraham Lincoln -
I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.
John Henry Newman -
See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.
Robin Williams -
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Voltaire -
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
Marcus Aurelius -
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence
Bertrand Russell -
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg -
I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Walt Whitman -
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
Richard Dawkins -
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Woody Allen -
Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.
Gordon B. Hinckley -
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
Voltaire -
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
Erma Bombeck -
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
Ronald Reagan -
If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.
Woody Allen -
Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'
Bill Maher -
I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
Alice Walker -
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
C.S. Lewis -
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
Martin Luther -
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
John Wooden -
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
John Lennon -
God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.
Martin Luther -
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei -
In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
Ellen DeGeneres -
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
Umberto Eco -
Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
Corrie Ten Boom -
I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
Arthur C. Clarke -
When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.
Jane Wagner -
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
Aldous Huxley -
Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
Hans Christian Andersen -
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
Albert Camus -
God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.
John Piper -
But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
Vincent Van Gogh -
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr -
Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.
Criss Jami -
Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.
Dean Koontz -
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
Douglas Adams -
I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.
Ellen DeGeneres -
Beer is proof that God wants us to be happy
Benjamin Franklin -
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
Edmond de Goncourt -
No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.
Orson F. Whitney -
A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man
Arthur Schopenhauer -
The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.
Rob Bell -
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins -
I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him.
Ravi Zacharias -
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
Jorge Luis Borges -
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
Pablo Picasso -
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
Voltaire -
My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.
Mahatma Gandhi -
It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.
Corrie Ten Boom -
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'
William Arthur Ward -
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Isaac Asimov -
When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'That knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well George, that's more nearly your size.' And he told me.
George Washington Carver -
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
Woody Allen -
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own — a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.
Albert Einstein -
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Henry Miller -
I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don't have to waste your time in either attacking or defending.
Isaac Asimov -
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
Jonathan Edwards -
God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours.
David Livingstone -
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
Gene Roddenberry -
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
William Shakespeare -
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.
Arthur C. Clarke -
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
Johann Sebastian Bach -
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
Albert Einstein -
Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
John Lennon -
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
Albert Einstein -
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
Stephen King -
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Frank Lloyd Wright -
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
George Washington Carver -
Only God can judge me.
Tupac Shakur
Even More God Quotes
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Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
Garrison Keillor -
I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
George Bernard Shaw -
You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.
Hunter S. Thompson -
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.
Keith Richards -
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.
Swami Vivekananda -
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar Wilde -
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Ronald Reagan -
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!
Patrick Henry -
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.
Stephen King -
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.
Fulton J. Sheen -
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.
Mother Teresa -
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Albert Einstein -
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Stephen Hawking -
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
Susan B. Anthony -
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.
Mark Twain -
The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
Euclid -
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?
Lily Tomlin -
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.
Maya Angelou -
When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.
Martin Buber -
I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
Orson Welles -
Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.
Mary McLeod Bethune -
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.
Jerry Bridges -
In the faces of men and women, I see God.
Walt Whitman -
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.
John Muir -
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.
Dwight L. Moody -
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
Johann Sebastian Bach -
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
Jodi Picoult -
I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.
Nikos Kazantzakis -
God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress.
Kelly Clarkson -
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.
Henry Ford -
A man with God is always in the majority.
John Knox -
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard -
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Saint Augustine -
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
Rachel Carson -
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams -
The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.
Julian of Norwich -
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
Abraham Lincoln -
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.
John Calvin -
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.
Bono -
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
Lenny Bruce -
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.
C. S. Lewis -
You can turn off the sun, but im still ganna shine!
Jason Mraz -
God owns heaven but He craves the earth.
Anne Sexton -
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.
Galileo Galilei -
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
Jules Renard -
I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
Saadi -
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein -
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
Oswald Chambers -
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
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.
Martin Luther King Jr. -
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
Jean-Paul Sartre -
A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
God is in the details.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
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.
Blaise Pascal -
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.
John Shelby Spong -
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
Oswald Chambers -
Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.
Eugene O'Neill -
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!
Andrew Murray -
Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
Dallas Willard -
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.
Geronimo -
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.
Ric Flair -
Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
Karl Barth -
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.
Frederick Buechner -
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
Desmond Tutu -
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
Franz Kafka -
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.
Johnny Cash -
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.
Blaise Pascal -
Nature is the art of God.
Dante Alighieri -
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.
George MacDonald -
I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.
Albert Einstein -
Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!
Jim Elliot -
Trust in God - she will provide.
Emmeline Pankhurst -
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.
Chester W. Nimitz -
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.
Larry Bird -
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.
Philip Yancey -
Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.
Johann Sebastian Bach -
What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.
Albert Einstein -
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?'
Annie Dillard -
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.
Ezra Taft Benson -
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
Swami Vivekananda -
Pray often; for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan
John Bunyan -
God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
Anna Pavlova -
As God once said, and I think rightly...
Bernard Law Montgomery -
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."
Albert Einstein -
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.
Bede Griffiths -
The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.
Alice Walker -
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.
Garrison Keillor -
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.
Helen Keller -
God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.
Anselm of Canterbury -
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.
George Balanchine -
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
Pythagoras -
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Douglas Adams -
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath Tagore -
There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.
Helen Keller -
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William Ellery Channing -
Duty is ours; the consequences are the Lord God's
Stonewall Jackson -
We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.
Ernest Shackleton -
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.
Charles Manson -
Divine love always has met and always will meet every human need.
Mary Baker Eddy -
He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find him the rest of the day
John Bunyan -
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.
Aeschylus -
I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.
Socrates -
He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
Abraham Kuyper -
The Lord was pleased to strengthen us, and remove all fear from us, and disposed our hearts to be as useful as possible.
Richard Allen -
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.
Edith Stein -
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
Voltaire -
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.
Ludwig Wittgenstein -
Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.
Louis XIV -
Woman was God's second mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
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.
Frederick Buechner -
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
Aldous Huxley -
Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.
Charles Wesley -
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
Gerard Manley Hopkins -
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.
Beatrix Potter -
If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
Evelyn Underhill -
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.
George Washington -
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.
Oswald Chambers -
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.
Augusto Pinochet -
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
Leonardo da Vinci -
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'
Billy Graham -
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
Karl Barth -
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.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
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.
Guru Nanak -
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.
John D. Rockefeller -
God sells us all things at the price of labor.
Leonardo da Vinci -
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
Epicurus -
May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.
Millard Fillmore -
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.
Anne Frank -
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.
George Balanchine -
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.
Mikhail Gorbachev -
He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done.
Leonardo da Vinci -
If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.
Mahatma Gandhi -
If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
William Law -
Love beauty; it is the shadow of God on the universe
Gabriela Mistral -
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.
Dan Barker -
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.
Emo Philips -
Poor Mexico. So far from God and so close to the United States.
Porfirio Diaz -
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.
Jacques Ellul -
We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.
John Stott -
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.
Drew Barrymore -
Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.
Mark Twain -
No matter what storm you face, you need to know God loves you. He has not abandoned you.
Franklin Graham -
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein -
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.
Francis Quarles -
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
Reinhold Niebuhr -
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.
Joan of Arc -
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.
Marcus Garvey -
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
Francis of Assisi -
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.
Anthony Edwards -
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
Zig Ziglar -
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.
Daniel Morgan -
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.
Abraham Lincoln -
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
Georges Duhamel -
Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
Maria Callas -
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
William Penn -
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.
E. e. cummings -
A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.
Mikhail Bakunin -
God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
Arthur Young -
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.
Dorothy L. Sayers -
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.
Rob Bell -
The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.
Albert Camus -
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.
John Quincy Adams -
God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts.
Muhammad -
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.
Benjamin Rush -
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.
Brooks Atkinson -
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
Peter De Vries -
Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone.
Elizabeth Fry -
The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.
John Milton -
Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.
Emanuel Swedenborg -
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
Martin Luther -
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Daniel Webster -
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
Voltaire -
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
God must become an activity in our consciousness.
Joel S. Goldsmith -
I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.
Charles Dickens -
He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.
Russell M. Nelson -
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
J. G. Holland -
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.
Peter Marshall -
I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
Helen Keller -
You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
Oswald Chambers -
In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.
Konrad Adenauer -
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.
Martin Lawrence -
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.
Swami Vivekananda -
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.
Billy Graham -
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
Niels Bohr -
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.
Dag Hammarskjold -
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
Edith Sitwell -
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
Thomas Paine -
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.
Marc Chagall -
God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.
Jean-Claude Van Damme -
There is more grace in God's heart than there is sin in your past.
Erwin W. Lutzer -
Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.
Karl Rahner -
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.
Ludwig Feuerbach -
We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.
Malcolm de Chazal -
In the day of prosperity, we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only One.
Horatius Bonar -
There is no God. But it does not matter. Man is enough.
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.
Marcus Tullius Cicero -
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.
Albert Einstein -
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.
Mary Daly -
God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
Alfred Jarry -
God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.
Guru Nanak -
I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.
Jean Ingelow -
Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.
Erik Satie -
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.
Cato the Elder -
In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
Lucy Maud Montgomery -
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.
Charles L. Allen -
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.
Emmet Fox -
Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
Garth Brooks -
What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.
Oprah Winfrey -
Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.
Kate Douglas Wiggin -
But if God wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain.
Clare Boothe Luce -
The gods too are fond of a joke.
Aristotle -
God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
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.
Johannes Brahms -
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.
Bede Griffiths -
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
Charles Horton Cooley -
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.
James Allen -
My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
Igor Stravinsky -
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.
Lewis Carroll -
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!
Aaliyah -
God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
A. Alfred Taubman -
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
Albert Einstein -
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.
Vincent Van Gogh -
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Samuel Butler -
God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.
Anne Sexton -
If God created shadows it was to better emphasise the light.
Pope John XXIII -
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.
G. M. Trevelyan -
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
Hunter S. Thompson -
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
Robert Green Ingersoll -
In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.
Hugh Sidey -
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.
John Wycliffe -
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
Euripides -
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.
Albert Einstein -
Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
Robert Burns -
Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.
Anaxagoras -
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.
Joseph Smith, Jr -
I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.
Georg Trakl -
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
Maria Mitchell -
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
Helen Keller -
If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.
Joan Rivers -
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
William Cowper -
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 âno, they're little gifts, containing meanings!
Philip Roth -
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.
George MacDonald -
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.
Igor Stravinsky -
My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.
Andrew Young -
God is a philosophical black hole-the point where reason breaks down.
Kedar Joshi -
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
Meister Eckhart -
Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.
Algernon Charles Swinburne -
God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
Chanakya -
God is the perfect poet.
Robert Browning -
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.
Robert Burns -
The more we depend on God the more dependable we find He is.
Cliff Richard -
Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
Anthony Trollope -
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Robert H. Schuller -
There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
Bill Cosby -
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andre Gide -
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein -
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.
David Crosby -
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.
Richard Cecil -
God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.
Alexandre Vinet -
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
Alfred Hitchcock -
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.
Barry McCaffrey -
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
John Calvin -
The best way to know God is to love many things.
Vincent Van Gogh -
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.
Charles L. Allen -
Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.
James Weldon Johnson -
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.
Karl Barth -
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.
Kurt Vonnegut -
Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
William Cowper -
Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.
Frank Herbert -
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
Isak Dinesen -
Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.
Judy Blume -
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.
Dorothy L. Sayers -
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
Benjamin Franklin -
If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.
Mike Ditka -
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
Joel Osteen -
If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
Boethius -
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
Janette Oke -
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.
Gian Carlo Menotti -
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.
George Washington Carver -
God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
Izaak Walton -
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
Elie Wiesel -
Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.
Mary Daly -
God enters by a private door into every individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you.
Cotton Mather -
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
Swami Vivekananda -
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.
Alan Watts -
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.
Barbara Boxer -
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.
Marilyn Monroe -
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.
Mariah Carey -
We stand strong together - as Americans - many cultures, races and faiths, but one nation under God.
Bob Taft -
God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.
Luis Palau -
If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
Mel Brooks -
To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.
Mary Baker Eddy -
God will begin to prosper you, for money always follows righteousness.
Benny Hinn -
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.
Giuseppe Mazzini -
Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
Ben Stein -
There's no God higher than truth.
Mahatma Gandhi -
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.
John Newton -
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.
Karl Rahner -
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
Simone Weil -
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.
Angela Carter -
God is definitely out of the closet.
Marianne Williamson -
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.
Leon Battista Alberti -
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.'
Benjamin Franklin -
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.
Daniel Defoe -
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.
Robin Williams -
God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
Luis Buñuel -
Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
Ram Dass -
Philosophies change by the day while God never changes, simply because, being perfect, He does not have to change!
Jimmy Swaggart -
Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one to thank.
Christina Rossetti -
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
Robert Browning -
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.
Elizabeth Fry -
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.
James Russell Lowell -
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Alphonse de Lamartine -
Jews talk a lot about God. But actually their god, just like Marx said, is money. Cash!
George Lincoln Rockwell -
Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employs a million.
Mark Twain -
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.
Vance Havner -
If the Almighty himself played the violin, the credits would still read 'Rubinstein, God, and Piatigorsky', in that order.
Jascha Heifetz -
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.
Paul Tillich -
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.
Bruce Barton -
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.
Ani DiFranco -
Love ceases to be a demon only when it ceases to be a god.
Denis de Rougemont -
Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
Bonnie Raitt -
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.
Karl Barth -
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
Florence King -
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.
Bede Griffiths -
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.
Saint Augustine -
Pray, and let God worry.
Martin Luther -
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.
Henri Matisse -
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.
William Lyon Phelps -
God doesn't believe in the easy way.
James Agee -
Every morning I wake up and thank God.
Aaron Neville -
God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.
Francis Picabia -
The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.
Richard DeVos -
When I see the American flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.'
Janeane Garofalo -
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.
Woody Allen -
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.
Joy Page -
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.
John Calvin -
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
Ansel Adams -
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.
Harold MacMillan -
This is and has been the Father's work from the beginning-to bring us into the home of His heart.
George MacDonald -
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.
Mary Baker Eddy -
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.
Albert Einstein -
I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to say.
Ronnie Shakes -
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.
Wilma Rudolph -
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.
Reinhold Niebuhr -
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
Anita Brookner -
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.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
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.
Simone Weil -
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!
Andre Breton -
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
Swami Vivekananda -
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
Victor Hugo -
I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.
Paul Tillich -
Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.
Oliver Cromwell -
I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
Clarence Darrow -
I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
Lou Holtz -
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.
Tim LaHaye -
Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
Charles Lindbergh -
If homosexuality were normal, God would have created Adam and Bruce.
Anita Bryant -
From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.
Howard Dean -
Oh, my God, this amazing cool breeze is coming through my window and the sun is shining. I'm happy.
Liv Tyler -
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 ...
Carter Heyward -
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.
Benjamin Banneker -
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.
George Barna -
A thick skin is a gift from God.
Konrad Adenauer -
I have always respected everyone's religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused people.
Hazel Scott -
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.
William Ellery Channing -
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
Mencius -
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.
Robin Williams -
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.
Pearl Bailey -
My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.
Herschel Walker -
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
Joseph Campbell -
In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.
Ravi Shankar -
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.
Charles Darwin -
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.
Mary Daly -
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.
William Law -
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?
Dan Castellaneta -
Blame is for God and small children.
Dustin Hoffman -
A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.
Alvin Dark -
How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?
Jack Lemmon -
To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
Florence Nightingale -
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
George Eliot -
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.
Joyce Cary -
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
Benjamin Franklin -
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.
Alfred Whitney Griswold -
I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family.
Steven Adler -
Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.
Al Bernstein -
Dear God, I pray for patience and I want it right now.
Oren Arnold -
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.
Ezra Taft Benson -
None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.
Torquato Tasso -
Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.
Bryan Appleyard -
Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.
Charles Simeon -
Thy way, not mine, O Lord, however dark it be; lead me by thine own hand; choose out the path for me.
Horatius Bonar -
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.
Bob Riley -
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.
Albert Barnes -
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.
James Russell Lowell -
For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.
John Milton -
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.
George Washington Carver -
Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
King Solomon -
Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
Babe Ruth -
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.
Richard Wagner -
The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.
John Buchan -
Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.
Jean Anouilh -
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
Denis Diderot -
Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls.
Georg Trakl -
I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
Jack Paar -
I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.
John Huston -
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire -
Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.
William Lloyd Garrison -
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
Charlotte Bronte -
The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
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.
Lee Iacocca -
If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.
Peter Marshall -
Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.
Benjamin Franklin -
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.
Sigmund Freud -
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.
James Whitcomb Riley -
In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
Frederick Buechner -
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.
Lorraine Hansberry -
It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher.
Linda Evangelista -
Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.
Jean Ingelow -
God helps those who help themselves.
Benjamin Franklin -
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
Alexander Pope -
God makes stars. I just produce them.
Samuel Goldwyn -
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.
John Calvin -
In America, money takes the place of God.
Anzia Yezierska -
God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
Ted Williams -
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.
Pearl Bailey -
God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends.
Ethel Watts Mumford -
God's finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.
George MacDonald -
God is a verb, not a noun.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
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.
Frank Lloyd Wright -
I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.
Voltaire -
The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind.
John Quincy Adams -
God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.
Archibald Alexander -
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
Seneca -
People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.
Pearl Bailey -
Friends are God's apology for relations.
Hugh Kingsmill -
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
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.
Frances Farmer -
Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.
Jean Anouilh -
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.
Aaron Allston -
God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
Benjamin Franklin -
God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
Bill Hybels -
It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.
Billy Connolly -
Humanity is the sin of God.
Theodore Parker -
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.
Billy Connolly -
If God had wanted us to play football in the sky, He'd have put grass up there.
Brian Clough -
I just thank God I can make a living doing something I enjoy as much as I do playing music.
Charlie Daniels -
God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.
Adela Rogers St. Johns -
My God! Middle Earth does exist!
Elijah Wood -
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.
Giuseppe Mazzini -
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.
Flannery O'Connor -
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.
Martin Luther -
I am God and my lawyers are my 12 disciples...do not f**k with me!
Courtney Love -
If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.
Bernard Meltzer -
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.
William Ellery Channing -
It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.
George MacDonald -
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.
Jonathan Katz -
Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.
Eberhard Arnold -
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.
Harry Emerson Fosdick -
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.
Clarence Jordan -
The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.
Marianne Faithfull -
Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.
Brigham Young -
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.
Fulton Oursler -
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Irv Kupcinet -
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.
Alfred A. Montapert -
With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.
Jean Anouilh -
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
William McKinley -
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.
Jean Baudrillard -
God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.
Dwight L. Moody -
Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?
Marilyn French -
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.
Epictetus -
God has a sense of humor. If you don't believe me, tomorrow go to wal-mart and just look at people.
Carlos Mencia -
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.'
Cesare Lombroso -
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
Ludwig van Beethoven -
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.
Vachel Lindsay -
The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.
Elayne Boosler -
An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.
A. P. Herbert -
God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
Aeschylus -
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
Aeschylus -
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
Ovid -
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.
Samuel Pepys -
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
Heraclitus -
Act, and God will act.
Joan of Arc -
The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being interfered with by prayers.
Bret Harte -
I believe that the people of Israel are the chosen people of God.
Jerry Falwell -
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.
Alicia Silverstone -
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
Jacques Deval -
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
Charles de Montesquieu -
Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.
Mignon McLaughlin -
God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.
Meister Eckhart -
I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.
Oscar Levant -
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
George Bancroft -
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.
Angelina Grimke -
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Anatole France -
Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people.
Robert Orben -
The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.
Charles Hodge -
The room where I am lodging is stupendous. Thank God I am as fit as a fiddle.
Pietro Mascagni -
Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid.
Euripides -
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.
Edgar Allan Poe -
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.
Cedric Hardwicke -
God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.
Frank Knox -
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!'.
Abraham Kuyper -
He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
Saadi -
You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.
Aiden Wilson Tozer -
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.
Richard Cecil -
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
Abraham Cowley -
The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
Alexander Smith -
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
Doris Egan -
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.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.
Aiden Wilson Tozer -
If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.
Jay Leno -
If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise Pascal -
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.
E. Howard Hunt -
God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.
Arturo Toscanini -
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
Alan Watts -
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
Jewish Proverb -
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.
Thomas Jefferson -
One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.
Jean Rostand -
And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him.
Arthur Hugh Clough -
The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
Blaise Pascal -
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.
Madame de Stael -
Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
Tryon Edwards -
The course of Nature is the art of God.
Edward Young -
God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh.
Benny Hinn -
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.
Woody Allen -
When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away
Stewart Brand -
God will forgive me. It's his job.
Heinrich Heine -
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.
Patrick Henry -
A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.
Don Marquis -
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.
Francis Schaeffer -
I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.
George MacDonald -
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
Paul Valery -
If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.
Kedar Joshi -
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
Agatha Christie -
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.
Enid Bagnold -
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.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
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.
Georges Bataille -
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
Voltaire -
If you love god, burn a church.
Jello Biafra -
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
Socrates -
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
Woody Allen -
God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.
Irving Layton -
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.
Samuel Rutherford -
All I can say about life is, 'Oh God, enjoy it!'
Bob Newhart -
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?
Bob Riley -
Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?
Bill Maher -
God loves us the way we are, but too much to leave us that way.
Leighton Ford -
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.
Francois Fenelon -
Once you've danced, you always dance. You can't deny the gifts that God sends your way
Judith Jamison -
Oh! God! That bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap!
Thomas Hood -
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.
Robert Browning -
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.
Alan Coren -
People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.
Herbert Beerbohm Tree -
God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
Baltasar Gracian -
The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.
Ludwig Borne -
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.
Ernest Renan -
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.
Charles Buck -
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.
James Joyce -
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.
Andrew Greeley -
The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.
Coventry Patmore -
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
Benjamin Harrison -
Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.
Ernst Moritz Arndt -
My God, he looks like he's beating a chicken.
Byron Nelson -
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.
Aretha Franklin -
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.
Izaak Walton -
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
William Blake -
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
William Cowper -
God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.
Sarah Orne Jewett -
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
Laurence Sterne -
If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people He gives it to.
Joe Moore -
He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.
William Penn -
Great writers are the saints for the godless.
Anita Brookner -
Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men.
Francis Picabia -
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.
Christopher Morley -
An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.
Aiden Wilson Tozer -
God made the country, and man made the town.
William Cowper -
The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.
Mary Stewart -
I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.
Roberto Clemente -
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.
Eva Burrows -
Serenity and inner beauty come when we wait upon God. "Waiting" like that is not merely wasting time.
Eva Burrows -
God seeks comrades and claims love, The devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.
Rabindranath Tagore -
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.
Sigmund Freud -
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.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.
Donald Knuth -
God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.
Billy Graham -
I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.
Samuel Rutherford -
Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel
Spanish Proverb -
Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.
William Law -
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.
Anita Brookner -
My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.
Benjamin Jowett -
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
Malcolm de Chazal -
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
Albert Einstein -
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
Anton Chekhov -
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.
Meister Eckhart -
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.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz -
To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.
Meister Eckhart -
Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.
Charles Buck -
The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.
Charles Simmons -
The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
Johann Kaspar Lavater -
We say the name of God, but that is only habit.
Nikita Khrushchev -
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.
Miguel de Unamuno -
A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi -
We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
Oswald Chambers -
The best thing of all is God is with us.
John Wesley -
Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.
William Feather -
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!
Humbert Wolfe -
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.
Betty Ford -
The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.
Thomas Watson -
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
Lee Iacocca -
Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
Karl Barth -
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
Kris Kristofferson -
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.
Gough Whitlam -
We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.
Charles C. West -
Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
Jiddu Krishnamurti -
Who says I am not under the special protection of God?
Adolf Hitler -
All the gods are dead except the god of war.
Eldridge Cleaver -
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Swami Vivekananda -
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
Cardinal Richelieu -
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.
Edwin Arlington Robinson -
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.
Lynn Lavner -
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.
John Wesley -
Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
Charles Kingsley -
When following God, Zero we never find.
Dejan Stojanovic -
By night an atheist half believes in a God.
Edward Young -
The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
Michel de Montaigne -
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston Churchill -
I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.
Albert Einstein -
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.
Arthur Hugh Clough -
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.
Anne Rice -
One on God's side is a majority.
Wendell Phillips -
What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
Eleanor Powell -
We don't call a man mad who believes that he eats God, but we do the one who says he is Jesus Christ
Claude Adrien Helvetius -
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.
Richard Whately -
We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.
Archibald MacLeish -
To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.
Barry Long -
God does arithmetic.
Carl Friedrich Gauss -
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.
Harry Crews -
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.
John Bradford -
If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
Meister Eckhart -
If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.
Voltaire -
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?
Sally Struthers -
You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
Bertolt Brecht -
I thank You, God, in Heaven, for friends.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster -
Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought.
Johanna Spyri -
God comes to the hungry in the form of food.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I have patterned myself after my father and God.
Adam Petty -
America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shinning sea!
Katharine Lee Bates -
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.
Jimmy Carter -
I'm religious. I think this is something God had planned for me.
Clay Aiken -
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.
Jim Bakker -
He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.
Epictetus -
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?
Rita Rudner -
The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.
Arthur Young -
God promises a safe landing but not a calm passage.
Bulgarian Proverb -
If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?
Art Hoppe -
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.
Art Hoppe -
The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.
Robert Burns -
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.
Brian Welch -
If we're not growing, we must feel guilty, because we are not fulfilling Christ's demand.
Eva Burrows -
Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.
C.S. Lewis -
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
Harry Emerson Fosdick -
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.
Art Hoppe -
God became man; and the love, woman. (Dieu s'est fait homme; - Et l'amour, femme.)
Charles de Leusse -
God knows no distance.
Charleszetta Waddles -
How to make God laugh: Tell him your future plans.
Woody Allen -
I know God won't give me anything I can't handle;I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Mother Teresa -
God watches over drunks and third baseman.
Leo Durocher -
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.
John Calvin -
Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
Walter Savage Landor -
God must hate common people, because he made them so common.
Philip Wylie -
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.
Eden Phillpotts -
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.
Jean Anouilh -
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.
Barry Long -
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.
Cesare Pavese -
Christ - an anarchist who succeeded.
Axel Munthe -
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.
Roland Allen -
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde -
We shall meet again. I have believed in God. I obeyed the laws of war and was loyal to my flag.
Adolf Eichmann -
Beer is God's way of telling us that he loves us and wants us to be happy.
Benjamin Franklin -
I could prove God statistically.
George Gallup -
I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.
Alben W. Barkley -
God is clever, but not dishonest.
Albert Einstein -
When I'm judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.
Albert Einstein -
The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen
Winston Churchill -
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.
Stephen Crotts -
I am not God, but I am my creator.
Terry Josephson -
God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.
Heywood Broun -
God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.
Plutarch -
You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.
Benjamin Jowett -
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain
C.S. Lewis -
Misfortune was my god.
Arthur Rimbaud -
Man is programmed to find the programmer.
Kedar Joshi -
And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love!
Arthur Rimbaud -
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.
Frederic Raphael -
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.
Bill Watterson -
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
Joan Rivers -
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.
David Cronenberg -
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Jay Leno -
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
Victor Hugo -
God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
Jean-Paul Sartre -
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
C.S. Lewis -
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.
C.S. Lewis -
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln -
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
Alexander Pope -
God buries His workmen but carries on His work.
Charles Wesley -
And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.
James Elroy Flecker -
Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.
Sigmund Freud -
When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
Aeschylus -
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
H. L. Mencken -
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
Orison Swett Marden -
To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.
Louis L'Amour -
The main doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God
Andrew White -
God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.
Saint Augustine -
A God all mercy is a God unjust.
Edward Young -
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
Elbert Hubbard -
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.
Henry Longhurst -
The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.
Karl Marx -
God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.
Ely Culbertson -
There's nothing worse than someone coming up to me and going Oh God, I really love your hair.
Gavin Rossdale -
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.
Ernest Dimnet -
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
Victor Hugo -
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.
Meister Eckhart -
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
Josh Billings -
Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.
William Penn -
He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.
Johann Kaspar Lavater -
The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.
George Eliot -
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
Blaise Pascal -
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
Blaise Pascal -
Time is a kindly God.
Sophocles -
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.
Henry Van Dyke -
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.
Kedar Joshi -
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Victor Hugo -
I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.
Madonna -
To believe in God is to yearn for His existence, and furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.
Miguel de Unamuno -
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.
Benjamin Franklin -
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.
Benjamin Franklin -
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
Euripides -
God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
Jean Rostand -
If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
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.
Oswald Chambers -
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
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
Joseph Alleine -
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
Elbert Hubbard -
Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.
Elbert Hubbard -
To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
Elbert Hubbard -
By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
Gloria Steinem -
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
Woody Allen -
The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
Jack London -
God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
Voltaire -
No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
Alan Bennett -
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
Voltaire -
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
George Bernard Shaw -
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard -
When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.
Ben Okri -
If God does not exist, everything is permitted.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -
God has many names, though He is only one Being.
Aristotle -
The gaurdian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.
Jean Paul Richter -
I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.
Honore de Balzac -
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.
Charles R. Swindoll -
There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
Michel de Montaigne -
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.
Adam Carolla -
Cat would be god for elephant, if it ate mouse in front. (Chat serait dieu de l'éléphant, - S'il mangeait la souris devant.)
Charles de Leusse -
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.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
Andre Gide -
Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
Ronald Reagan -
We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place.
Ronald Reagan -
The world is a navy in an empty ocean.
Dejan Stojanovic -
God is a cloud from which rain fell.
Dejan Stojanovic -
God is busy and has no time for you.
Dejan Stojanovic -
They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.
Ronald Reagan -
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'.
George Washington -
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
Robert Southey -
If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.
Marlene Dietrich -
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.
Homer -
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Niccolo Machiavelli -
The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
Alice Walker -
There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.
William Zinsser -
It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
Truman Capote -
God delays but doesn't forget
Spanish Proverb -
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..
Tupac Shakur -
God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.
Helen Keller -
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
Paul Valery -
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!
Mark Twain -
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain -
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
Helen Keller -
The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill.
Thomas Heywood -
The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us.
Indian Proverb -
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.
Primo Levi -
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
Saint Augustine -
Servant of God, well done, well hast thou fought The better fight.
John Milton -
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.
Meister Eckhart -
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.
Marianne Williamson -
No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion
Meister Eckhart -
Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.
Barbra Streisand -
Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.
Meister Eckhart -
Heaven means to be one with God.
Confucius -
God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
Victor Hugo -
One and God make a majority.
Frederick Douglass -
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
Simone Weil -
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.
Ludwig van Beethoven -
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.
Jonathan Swift -
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.
Alexander MacLaren -
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
Jonathan Swift -
God respects me when I work, but He loves me when I sing.
Rabindranath Tagore -
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Henry Louis Mencken -
Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
George Eliot -
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
Alan Watts -
God Himself chasteneth not with a rod but with time.
Baltasar Gracian -
The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
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.
Farrah Fawcett -
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Albert Einstein -
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.
Albert Einstein -
Beauty is the gift of God
Aristotle -
God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see a possibility of hope.
Maya Angelou -
I try to work with God as a partner.
Gary Player -
Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.
Kathryn Hulme -
God has entrusted me with myself.
Epictetus -
In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.
Pythagoras -
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'.
Mahatma Gandhi -
You moon, have you done something wrong in heaven / That God has hidden your face?
Jean Ingelow -
All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first.
Robert Browning -
Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.
Deepak Chopra -
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.
Otto von Bismarck -
I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of me.
Shirley MacLaine -
God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.
Robert Browning -
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.
Albert Pike -
God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.
Graham Greene -
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
Albert Camus -
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.
Joan Rivers -
I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor
Joan Rivers -
If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him
Eldridge Cleaver