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

If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex.

Art Hoppe

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

Hermann Hesse

Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

Chapman Cohen, (1868 - 1954)

Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.

Brigham Young

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Reinhold Niebuhr, in a sermon in 1943

Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you God only can do that but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.

Tryon Edwards

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

Baltasar Gracian

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

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

God is really only another artist, he made the elephat, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas.

Pablo Picasso

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

Cardinal Richelieu

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

Irv Kupcinet

Thou art a Man, God is no more. Thy own humanity learn to adore.

William Blake

If God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?

Claire Boothe Luce

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

Thomas Szasz

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. To Canadian Parliament.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

John the Elde

God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.

James M. Barrie

I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,... they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.

Oscar Levant

There are three things which are real God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.

John Ashcroft

When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one.

David Dean Rusk

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

Emily Dickinson

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ... there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ... one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God.... To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ... so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.

Saint Augustine

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.

Robert Collie

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Voltaire

I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere.

Fran Lebowitz

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

Saint Teresa of Avila

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

Miguel De Cervantes

We are all in the hands of an omnipotent, omniscient, just and merciful God, and whatever may be the destiny of humanity for real or woe, there will be a universal and eternal amen to all that God does.

W. T. Ussery

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God or Satan is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.

Stephen King

A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.

Hunter S. Thompson

Oh God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!

William Shakespeare