God Quotes

If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior.

Max Lucado

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

And the wind shall say Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls.

T. S. Eliot

Communism is what happens when, in the name of Mind, men free themselves from God.

Whittaker Chambers, from Witness (1952)

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

Jack London

We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

God sells knowledge for labour - - Honour for risk.

Arabic Prove

We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Albert Einstein

Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.

Blaise Pascal

May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this - when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.

Homer, The Odyssey

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.

Jesse Louis Jackson

Man can live far from God - - Not outside God. God is wherever we are. Even in suffering? Even in suffering.

Elie Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

Miguel de Cervantes

God is love, but get it in writing.

Gypsy Rose Lee

God creates men, but they choose each other.

Niccolo Machiavelli, quoted in O Magazine, November 2003

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - The dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton

God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper.

Richard Buckminster Fulle

God gives us our relatives - Thank God we can choose our friends.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

It is pleasing to God whenever you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

Martin Luthe

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

God has always been hard on the poor.

Jean - Paul Marat

May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.

Voltaire

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

Jean Rostand, Thoughts of a Biologist (1939)

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

Albert Einstein

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

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer, The Iliad

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.

P. T. Forsyth

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.

Kahlil Gibran

My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made.

Robert Browning

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

Be strong and of good courage be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

Joshua 19 Bible

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens.

Michel de Montaigne

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is.

Jean Anouilh

How to make God laugh: Tell him your future plans.

Woody Allen

Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.

Swami Sivanada