God Quotes

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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuh
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuh
Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - Act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Isaac Asimov
God must hate common people, because he made them so common.
Philip Wylie
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement - Seat of the Gods.
Seneca
Socrates, from diogenes laertius, lives of eminent philosophers - having the fewest wants, i am nearest to the gods....
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.
Plato
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Sir Francis Bacon
To believe God is a Privilege, To doubt God is an insult.
Unknown
God is love, but get it in writing.
Gypsy Rose Lee
Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ... there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ... one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God.... To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ... so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.
Saint Augustine
Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
Mel Brooks
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
There are two kinds of people those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way.
C. S. Lewis
Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.
Homer, The Odyssey
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
C. S. Lewis
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
Francis Quarles
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
Stephen Roberts
God is a verb.
R. Buckminster Fulle
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
Anton Chekhov
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
Sophocles, Antigone
Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.
William Shakespeare
Life has. taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
Alan Stewart Paton
God save me from my friends. I can protect myself from my enemies.
Claude Louis Hector de Villars
Rejoice evermore. In every thing give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
Thessalonians 516, 18 Bible
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
Seneca
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Leo Tolstoy
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
George Bernard Shaw
Despair has been called the unforgivable sin - - Not presumably because God refuses to forgive it but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.
Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973
Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves.
Anne Rice, Interview with a Vampire
Help thyself, and God will help thee.
Jean de La Fontaine
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
Woody Allen
My sense of God is my sense of wonder about the Universe.
Albert Einstein
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
Rebecca West
God will be present, whether asked or not.
Latin Prove