God Quotes

Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.

Homer, The Iliad

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

Baltasar Gracian

God gives, but man must open his hand.

German Prove

The Godless would deny and destroy human rights.... the liberties of a nation cannot be secure when belief in God is abandoned.

U. S. Senate Chaplain Richard Halverson

Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.

John Owen

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

George Bernard Shaw

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

Charlotte Bronte

Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.

Adel Bestavros

A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.

Thomas Merton

It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.

Albert Coombs Barnes

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

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

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Frank Lloyd Wright

EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. We? re looking for something, though we? re not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, February 13, 2003

There are three things which are real God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. Were looking for something, though were not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preache

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.

William Shakespeare

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

Blaise Pascal

Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritual basis - And on a belief in God and an observance of moral principle. And in the long run only the church can provide that basis. Our founder knew this truth - And we will neglect it at our peril.

President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 p1063

I put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

John Gillespie Magee Jr., High Flight

Poor Mexico - So far from God and so close to the United States.

Porfirio Diaz, Biography of Porfirio Diaz

The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.

Publilius Syrus

The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past.

Samuel Butler, 1835 - 1902

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.

Homer, The Odyssey

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

Edwin Holt Hughes

I was baptized with the Holy Spirit when I took Him by simple faith in the Word of God.

R. A. Torrey

Create like a god. Command like a king. Work like a slave!

Constantin Brancusi

And now, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career, and just fade away... an old soldier who tried to do his duty, as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good - Bye.

Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Farewell address, quoted on "We Interrupt This Broadcast" CD - ROM

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Thomas Jefferson (Motto on his seal)

Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for.

Terry Lynn Taylo

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

God said: you must teach, as I taught, without a fee.

The Talmud

In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill - Success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.

Barbara Paley

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fai

May it not be that, just as we have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us.

Wystan Hugh Auden

We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.

R. W. Dale

My sense of God is my sense of wonder about the Universe.

Albert Einstein