God Quotes

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.

Thomas Jefferson

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

Paul Valery

I refuse to be labeled immoral merely because I am godless.

Peter Walke

In making up the character of God, the old theologians failed to mention that He is of infinite cheerfulness. The omission has caused the world much tribulation.

Michael Monahan

God always has an angel of help for those who are willing to do their duty.

T. L. Cuyle

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Elbert Hubbard

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Seneca

Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Bible, Colossians 3: 16

Age, health, and stage in life have nothing to do with serving or not serving. In each season of life there are attributes and qualities of life and experience that God values in service.

Bruce Kempe

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

Demosthenes

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

Thomas Szasz

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

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

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Horace Mann

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.

George Bernard Shaw

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

We say the name of God, but that is only habit.

Nikita Khrushchev

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

Themistocles, from Plutarch, Lives

God is dead, but fifty thousand social workers have risen to take his place.

J. D. McCoughey

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

Anonymous

God creates men, but they choose each other.

Niccolo Machiavelli, quoted in O Magazine, November 2003

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

The Dhammapada

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Magneto You are a god among insects. Never let anyone tell you different.

X2 X - Men United

But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture, Tell them that God bids us do good for evil. And thus I clothe my naked villainyWith odd old ends stolen forth of holy writ, And seem I a saint, when most I play the Devil.

William Shakespeare

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

So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - Neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

Homer, The Odyssey

No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Whatever task God is calling us to, if it is yours it is mine, and if it is mine it is yours. We must do it together - Or be cast aside together.

Howard Hewlett Clark

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts the rest are details.

Albert Einstein

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

Art Hoppe

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Francis Quarles

Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us a handful of stars.

Louis Untermeye

Grow old along with me The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made Our times are in his hand who saith, A whole I planned, Youth shows but half trust God See all, nor be afraid.

Robert Browning

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Cato the Elde