God Quotes

With stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

Friedrich von Schille

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

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

Carl Jung

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Aristotle, Politics

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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 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

Souls woven together by the gods can never be unraveled.

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

Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.

Herbert Westren Turnbull

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

Agathon

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

Saint Teresa of Avila

For the birds that cannot soar, God has provided low branches.

Turkish Prove

He was a wise man who invented God.

Plato

God is a thing that thinks.

Benedict Spinoza

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 Niebuh

God help those who do not help themselves.

Wilson Mizne

Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement... in relations between the two great nations on earth.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

At any rate, I am convinced that He God does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

Thomas Szasz

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.

Dr. Robert Schulle

Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.

Miguel De Cervantes

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.

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who belive in God against this tide of Red agnosticism. ... And in rejecting an atheistic other world, I am confident that the Almighty God will be with us.

President Herbert Hoover, in proposing the abolition of the United Nations, in favor of a "cooperation of God - Fearing free nat

Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

A. J. Toynbee

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man - Given. Be grateful. Conceit is self - Given. Be careful.

John Wooden

Friend, be not afraid of thy office, thou sendest me to God.

Saint Thomas More, upon being executed

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

Lin Yutang

I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.

Richard Wagne

In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less.

John Christian Bovee

Some people get angry because God put thorns on roses, while others praise him for putting roses among thorns.

Anonymous

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.

Harry S. Truman

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fai

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 cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Thomas Jefferson

The world is proof that God is a committee.

Bob Stokes