God Quotes

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.

Benjamin Franklin

To them that ask, where have you seen the gods, or how do you know for certain there are gods, that you are so devout in their worship I answer Neither have I ever seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.

Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics

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

Voltaire

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

George Smith Patton, Jr.

The voice of the people is the voice of God. Vox Populi, Vox Dei.

Alcuin

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.

Felix Adle

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

Agnes Repplie

Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.

Macduff

Einstein said that God does not play dice with the universe. He was right, but not in the way he meant. God doesn? t play dice with the universe because the universe doesn? t need him. The craps table is set up and running. Whether or not God put it there is besides the point.

Mark Coggins, "The Immortal Game" (novel)

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic.

Henry Ward Beeche

Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.

President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 pp548 - 549

In all religiousness there lurks the suspicion that we invented the story that God Loves us.

Sebastian Moore

How God ever brings like to like.

Home

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

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Jorge Luis Borges

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

I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.

Sufi Prove

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

G. K. Chesterton

While God waits for His temple to be built of love, Men bring stones.

Rabindranath Tagore

God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!

William Shakespeare

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca, Epistles

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.

Saint Teresa of Avila

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

The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.

Alfred A. Montapert

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

The Knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Blaise Pascal

Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives.

Terry Lynn Taylo

God is the God of truth and every spiritual quality must live with that holy attribute.

Edwin Holt Hughes

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

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

Franz Werfel

In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less.

John Christian Bovee

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

Alan J. Perlis

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.

Ambrose of Milan

We are meant to be addicted to God, but we develop secondary addictions that temporarily appear to fix our problem.

Edward M. Berckman