God Quotes

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.

Anatole France

Each of us, as members of the Body of Christ, has been given at least one spiritual gift. Besides this, there are the natural abilities with which God has endowed us. He intends these to primarily be used for the edification of the Body of believers. There is no such thing as a private gift Rom. 126 - 8.

Bruce Kempe

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

Claire Boothe Luce

Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 122 Bible

God made man because He loves stories.

Elie Wiesel

Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace.

Saint Augustine

Religion is pickled God.

H. G. Wells, H. G. Wells Society

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.

Margo Kaufman

Porque el miedo, sin ser Dios, suele hacer algo de nada. Fear can, though it is not God, create something from nothing.

Caspar de Aguila

If weakness may excuse, What Murderer, what Traitor, Parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it All Wickedness is Weakness That plea therefore With God or Man will gain thee no Remission.

John Milton

This is how God showed His love among us He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him.

1 John 49 NIV Bible

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

Paul Valery

God is in the details.

Mies van der Rohe

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

Saint Teresa of Avila

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

Lin Yutang

Love is the essence of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

Euripides

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde, An Ideal husband, 1893

What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Walt Whitman

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Karl Barth

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

God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.

Alcoholics Anonymous Praye

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

Thank God, I have done my duty. Kiss me, Hardy.

Adm. Horatio Nelson, last words, 21 Oct 1805.

Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.

Herbert Westren Turnbull

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

Mel Brooks

God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

Izaak Walton

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

Henry Ward Beeche

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

Galileo Galilei

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

Oscar Levant

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Nicholas Chamfort

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)