God Quotes

Human excellence means nothing unless it works with the consent of God.

Euripides

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

Franz Werfel

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books.

Samuel Butler, The Note - Books of Samuel Butler (1912)

Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

Michel de Montaigne

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

God is a thing that thinks.

Benedict Spinoza

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.

Horace Mann

The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.

Sri da Avabhas

Live among men as if God beheld you speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.

Homer, The Odyssey

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

Dag Hammarskjld

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.

Bible, Jesus in Matthew 5: 9

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

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

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

Alfred Jarry

I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of ME.

Shirley MacLaine

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

John Christian Bovee

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Isaac Asimov

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God - Made object up to it a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art.

Marc Chagall

If I could take all your words away and give you but a sparse few, they would be: ? I now know, I am absolute, I am complete, I am God, I am.? If there were no other words but these, you would no longer be limited to this plane.

Ramtha

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Sir Francis Bacon

Whom the gods love dies young.

Menander, The Double Deceive

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.

Agnes Repplie

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

One of the things that makes God different from people is that God is always available to listen.

Rabbi David Wolpe

Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.... The prayers of both could not be answered - - That of neither has been answered fully.

Abraham Lincoln

Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.

Adel Bestavros

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Kahlil Gibran

History is a vision of God? s creation on the move.

Arnold Toynbee

And now, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career, and just fade away... an old soldier who tried to do his duty, as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good - Bye.

Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Farewell address, quoted on "We Interrupt This Broadcast" CD - ROM

No man can know God unless God has taught him that is to say, that without God, God cannot be known.

Iranaeus

There but for the grace of God go I.

John Bradford

You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide - Sounding Zeus puts a good mind.

Homer, The Iliad

I am not God, but I am my creator.

Terry Josephson

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

Voltaire