God Quotes

There is a god within us, and we have intercourse with heaven. That spirit comes from abodes on high.

Ovid

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

Epictetus, Discourses

Religion is pickled God.

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

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

Georges Duhamel

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing.

Epictetus

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Hippocrates, Regimen

God save me from my friends. I can protect myself from my enemies.

Claude Louis Hector de Villars

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

Izaak Walton

I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God? s true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow.

George Washington Carve

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

Allan K. Chalmers

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

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To love another person is to see the face of God.

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

This ONLY is denied God The power to undo the past.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.

President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangelicals, Columbus, Ohio

God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.

Benjamin Franklin

God is dead, but fifty thousand social workers have risen to take his place.

J. D. McCoughey

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

Eric Hoffe

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Thomas Jefferson

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Leo Tolstoy

Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.

Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Jacques Deval

Nature has perfection, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image.

Blaise Pascal

May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand.

Irish Blessing

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

C. S. Lewis, Chicken Soup for the Soul (book)

Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.

General Omar Bradley

Christians rejoice because God is their heavenly Father who forgives the penitent, because God sent his Son into the world for the salvation of all who have faith, because Jesus Christ not only died but was raised again from the dead and because joy is one of the ninefold fruits of the Spirit.

W. G. Morrice

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.

Woody Allen

This is the doctrine of justification. It is the wonderful fact that God imputes His righteousness to us and makes us immune to the condemnation of sin. Being justified, no sin can ever be imputed against us.

Art Sims

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people He gives it to.

Joe Moore

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - - Trees, flowers, grass - - Grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... we need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Theresa

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 up to us.

A. J. Toynbee

Not only as each new year dawns, but constantly, persistently, the God of all grace urges His blood - Bought children to give themselves to Him in complete surrender and so to prove to themselves how much more blessed it is to yield to His will than to indulge in their own.

Cornelius Stam

Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Abraham Lincoln

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

Elbert Hubbard