God Quotes
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.Friedrich Nietzsche
There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.C. S. Robinson
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
O God! I ask You for the means to do good, to avoid evil and to love the poor.Mohammed
Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.Albert Camus
I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.Carry Nation
Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia - Denouncing the evils of slavery
Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 pp548 - 549
Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
This ONLY is denied God The power to undo the past.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not and whether we believe in God or not. So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.Malcolm Boyd
May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this - when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.Homer, The Odyssey
Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
True poverty does not come from God.Yiddish Prove
We want God to come and save us. But he won? t. God doesn? t stop levees from failing, he doesn? t stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesn? t stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 09 - 09 - 05
Thou art a Man, God is no more. Thy own humanity learn to adore.William Blake
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.Mark Twain
In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.James Agee
Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is, but let us consider the two possibilities. If you gain, you gain all if you lose you lose nothing. Hesitate not, then, to wager that He is.Blaise Pascal
Loving is misery for women always. I shall never forgive God for making me a woman and dearly am I beginning to pay for the honour of owning a pretty face.Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he created mothers.Jewish Prove
God is either everything, or He is nothing.Bill Wilson, Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous
Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The laughter of a man is the contentment of God.John Weiss
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.Mark Twain
The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.Margo Kaufman
The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.Kahlil Gibran
We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.Albert Einstein
God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!William Shakespeare
Christians rejoice because God is their heavenly Father who forgives the penitent, because God sent his Son into the world for the salvation of all who have faith, because Jesus Christ not only died but was raised again from the dead and because joy is one of the ninefold fruits of the Spirit.W. G. Morrice
God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives - - DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.Dr. Dale E. Turne
I believe in God like I believe in the sun, not because I can see it, but because of it all things are seen.C. S. Lewis
I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 3 scene 1
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.C. S. Lewis, Chicken Soup for the Soul (book)
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the godsThey kill us for their sport.William Shakespeare
