God Quotes

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

Paul Valery

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or tremble... for the Lord, your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or forsake you.

Bible, Deuteronomy 31: 6 NAS

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

A child is not likely to find a father in God unless he finds something of God in his father.

Austin L. Sorensen

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

G. K. Chesterton

A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.

John Ballantine Gough

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

Voltaire

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

Emily Dickinson

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

God is in the details.

Mies van der Rohe

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

Voltaire

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Henry David Thoreau, Jan. 3, 1861

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

Friedrich von Schille

God will be present, whether asked or not.

Latin Prove

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

Hermann Hesse

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

Voltaire

I think God is as much a basic ingredient in the universe as neutrons and positrons. This is the prime force, when we look around the universe.

Gene Roddenberry

Champions are a rare breed. They trust God while others ask for answers. They step forward while others pray for volunteers. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, the hardships.

Unknown

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

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

Thomas Fulle

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

Carl Jung

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other. God help me. Amen.

Martin Luther, in front of his inquisitors at the Diet of Worms.

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.

Albert Einstein

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

Voltaire

I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.

Richard Wagne

God gave teeth He will give bread.

Lithuanian Prove

Waste no more time arguing what a god man should be. Be one.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Ten

For God hates utterly The bray of bragging tongues.

Sophocles, Antigone

Men should not trust in God as if God did all, and yet labor earnestly as is he himself did all.

Allan K. Chalmers

Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.

Hesiod

Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad.

R. D. Laing

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

Bob Newhart

God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.

Swedish Prove

We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.

John Owen

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

Carl Sandburg

Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

Chapman Cohen, (1868 - 1954)