God Quotes
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
The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.Thomas Carlyle
The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.Homer, The Odyssey
Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.Flavius Josephus, Life
I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.Sufi Prove
We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.John Owen
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
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
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.Seneca
This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
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
Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen.The Talmud
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.Socrates
Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.Marcus Tullius Cicero
True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.William Penn
In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.Frederick Buechne
God bless thee and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty.William Shakespeare
I could prove God statistically.George Gallup
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or 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
Rejoice evermore. In every thing give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.Thessalonians 516, 18 Bible
We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming proud, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God call abominable.Robert Cecil
Deus ex machina A god from the machine.Menande
The worshiper is the father of the gods.H. L. Mencken
It is occasionally possible to charge hell with a bucket of water, but against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.Doris Fleeson
We have been God - Like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit - Like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.Arnold Toynbee
I put out my hand, and touched the face of God.John Gillespie Magee Jr., High Flight
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!Henry David Thoreau
Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. We? re looking for something, though we? re not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, February 13, 2003
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, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
I have no need of your God - Damned sympathy. I only wish to be entertained by some of your grosser reminiscences.Alexander Woollcott
Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls.Rabbi Harold Kushne
When times are good, be happy, but when time are bad consider; God has made the one as well as the other.Bible, Ecclesaistes 7: 14
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?Irv Kupcinet
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - But to create him.Arthur C. Clarke
God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.Sir William Bragg
When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03 - 25 - 05
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 Butle