God Quotes

Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.

Emmet Fox

Prayer is.... the salve on the wounds of our spirit that we order from God in our moments with Him.

Unknown

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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

Miguel de Cervantes

At any rate, I am convinced that He God does not play dice.

Albert Einstein, In a letter to Max Born, 1926

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.

Agnes Repplie

Friends are great and always seem to work by the appropriate will of God.

Jason Mraz

Heaven means to be one with God.

Confucius

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Sir Francis Bacon

If only God would give me some clear sign Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.

Woody Allen

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 1

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

SMILE GOD LOVES YOU.

Unknown

We are all pencils in the hand of God.

Mother Theresa

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Oscar Levant

What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who belive in God against this tide of Red agnosticism. ... And in rejecting an atheistic other world, I am confident that the Almighty God will be with us.

President Herbert Hoover, in proposing the abolition of the United Nations, in favor of a "cooperation of God - Fearing free nat

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

Alexandre Dumas, fils

Your food stamps will be stopped effective March, 1992, because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances.

Greenville County (S. C.) Department of Social Services, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

I think there are innumerable gods. What we here on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating trough human conciousness control events.

William S. Buroughs, Paris Review, Fall 1965

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Samuel Butle

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.

Thomas Paine, "The Age of Reason".

It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.

Homer, The Iliad

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

God is always on the side of the big battalions.

Voltaire

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Albert Einstein

To God all things are beautiful, good, and right human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.

Heraclitus

Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror. Kill all and you are a God.

Jean Rostand

Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

Michel de Montaigne

If men will not be governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants.

William Penn

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

Benjamin Jowett

The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God you fear everything else.

Oswald Chambers

The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

Thomas Carlyle

Life is a God - Damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety - Nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

Theodore Dreiser, quoting an unnamed newspaper edito

He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.

Bill Bryson

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.

Anna James