God Quotes

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.

Stanley Lindquist

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god - Fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

Aristotle, unknown

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

Heywood Broun

It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.

Horace Bushnell

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

Hermann Hesse

One of the things that makes God different from people is that God is always available to listen.

Rabbi David Wolpe

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

Miguel de Cervantes

God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.

Kahlil Gibran

Do we, holding that gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantiated dreams, and lies, while random careless chance and change alone rule the world.

Euripides

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg.

Thomas Jefferson

A God all mercy is a God unjust.

Edward Young

Einstein said that God does not play dice with the universe. He was right, but not in the way he meant. God doesn? t play dice with the universe because the universe doesn? t need him. The craps table is set up and running. Whether or not God put it there is besides the point.

Mark Coggins, "The Immortal Game" (novel)

I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.

Oscar Wilde

It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.

Thomas Merton

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Charles Hodge

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Hippocrates, Regimen

Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives.

Terry Lynn Taylo

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Thomas Jefferson (Motto on his seal)

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.

Homer, The Odyssey

Man can live far from God - - Not outside God. God is wherever we are. Even in suffering? Even in suffering.

Elie Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference

I think God is as much a basic ingredient in the universe as neutrons and positrons. This is the prime force, when we look around the universe.

Gene Roddenberry

A venturesome minority will always be eager to get off on their own... let them take risks, for Godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - That is the right and privilege of any free American.

16 Idaho Law Review 407, 420 - 1980.

So many Gods, so many creeds So many ways that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all this sad world needs.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Old postcard

He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.

Bill Bryson

He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.

Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

G. C. Lichtenberg

Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

Michel de Montaigne

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

Albert Einstein

To be closer to God, be closer to people.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Frederick Buechne

God is a thing that thinks.

Benedict Spinoza

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

Andre Gide

Grow old along with me The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made Our times are in his hand who saith, A whole I planned, Youth shows but half trust God See all, nor be afraid.

Robert Browning

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

Rebecca West

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

Izaak Walton

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

Marquis de Sade