God Quotes

God is dead, but fifty thousand social workers have risen to take his place.
J. D. McCoughey
God has always been hard on the poor.
Jean - Paul Marat
God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.
J. M. Barry
Jackie mason - by these things examine thyself. by whose rules...
J. m. barrie - god gives us memory so that we may have roses in...
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
Jacques Deval
In saffron - Colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men.
Home
God gives, but man must open his hand.
German Prove
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
Friends are great and always seem to work by the appropriate will of God.
Jason Mraz
Demosthenes - what we have in us of the image of god is the...
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is.
Jean Anouilh
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.
Henry David Thoreau
The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.
Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Thomas Paine
The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.
Charles Robert Darwin
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Voltaire
Far or forgot to me is nearShadow and sunlight are the sameThe vanished gods to me appearAnd one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me outWhen me they fly, I am the wingsI am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.
William Shakespeare
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
Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
Miguel de Cervantes
God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.
Anonymous, Graffito
True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
William Penn
You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.
A. W. Toze
Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
William Ralph Inge
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it enthusiasm signifies God in us.
Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Stal Stal
He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.
Jeremy Taylo
The Godless would deny and destroy human rights.... the liberties of a nation cannot be secure when belief in God is abandoned.
U. S. Senate Chaplain Richard Halverson
All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!
Bob Newhart
The kingdom of God or nothing.
John Taylor, former president of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
Sophy Burnham
Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.
Marguerite de Valois
When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.
The Work of the Chariot
God gives to every man virtue, temper, and understanding.
William Coope
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
Lin Yutang
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
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.
Bible, Jesus in Matthew 5: 9