God Quotes

Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.

Luthe

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the godsThey kill us for their sport.

William Shakespeare

I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1850

Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self - Opinionated thinkers.

John Owen

Samir No, not again. I... why does it say paper jam when there is no paper jam I swear to God, one of these days, I just kick this piece of shit out the window.

Office Space

Our first responsibility is not to build the Church or even to get souls saved - - It is to represent Christ and to bring His message to the world. As God beholds us in Christ, so the world must behold Christ in us. As Christ represents us before the Father, so we must represent Christ before the world.

Cornelius Stam

I believe that the power to make money is a gift from God.

John D. Rockefelle

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

Dorothy Parke

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Plato

Thank God, I have done my duty. Kiss me, Hardy.

Adm. Horatio Nelson, last words, 21 Oct 1805.

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

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides, The Bacchae, circa 407 B. C.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But 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

The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods.

John Calvin

We get new ideas from God every hour of our day when we put our trust in Him - - But we have to follow that inspiration up with perspiration - - we have to work to prove our faith. Remember that the bee that hangs around the hive never gets any honey.

Albert E. Cliffe

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Prove

Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.

Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)

Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God.

T. T. Munge

Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.

Home

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

You God have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

Saint Augustine

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.

William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 5 scene 3

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

Charles Hodge

God cannot alter the past, but historians can.

Samuel Butle

God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.

Harvey Cox

God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.

Swedish Prove

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

Irv Kupcinet

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

Thomas A. Edison

Souls woven together by the gods can never be unraveled.

Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)

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

Oscar Wilde

For God hates utterly The bray of bragging tongues.

Sophocles

The voice of the people is the voice of God.

Alcuin

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

Jean Ingelow

God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.

Thomas H. Huxley

What a piece of work is a man how noble in reason how infinite in faculty in form and moving how express and admirable in action how like an angel in apprehension how like a god.

William Shakespeare

Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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

Soren Kierkegaard