God Quotes

The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Create like a god. Command like a king. Work like a slave!

Constantin Brancusi

God gave teeth He will give bread.

Lithuanian Prove

Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.

Walt Whitman

God sells knowledge for labour - - Honour for risk.

Arabic Prove

Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

David Dean Rusk

If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.

G. K. Chesterton

God is either everything, or He is nothing.

Bill Wilson, Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous

I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience - - And laughter.

Susan M. Watkins

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Pierre Charron

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Arnold J. Toynbee

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

Thomas A. Edison

And the wind shall say Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls.

T. S. Eliot

Life has. taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

Alan Stewart Paton

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and 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

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

C. S. Lewis

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

Albert Einstein

Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has placed either openly before us or close to us.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

Stephen Roberts

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

G. K. Chesterton

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

Mark Twain

Despair has been called the unforgivable sin - - Not presumably because God refuses to forgive it but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.

Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Deus ex machina A god from the machine.

Menander, The Woman Possessed with a Divinity

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

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 heals, and the doctor takes the fee.

Benjamin Franklin

History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

Albert Camus

I believe in God like I believe in the sun, not because I can see it, but because of it all things are seen.

C. S. Lewis

You must believe in God in spite of what the clergy say.

Benjamin Jowett

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.

Thomas Jefferson

God, I dont have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preache

God said: you must teach, as I taught, without a fee.

The Talmud

He who does not have the church as his mother does not have God as his Father.

Saint Augustine