God Quotes

Do we, holding that gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantiated dreams, and lies, while random careless chance and change alone rule the world.

Euripides

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country.

Benjamin Franklin, letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

H. L. Mencken

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

I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

William Frank Buckley, Jr.

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

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

He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.

Jeremy Taylo

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.

Harry S. Truman

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, 1976

History has proven, God has never given anyone a dream Without also including the power to achieve that dream It is up to us to claim the power and go after that dream, Or just claim, it was only a dream.

Unknown

Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls.

Rabbi Harold Kushne

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

Michel de Montaigne

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Aristotle, Politics

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

Galileo Galilei

You can pray for someone even if you dont think God exists.

Real Live Preache

God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.

African Prove

May the road rise to meet you, May the wind be always at your back, May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again may god hold you in the palm of his hand.

Unknown

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.

Dr. Robert Schulle

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Nicholas Chamfort

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

Horace, Odes

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - - But to create him.

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Henry Ward Beeche

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)

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Richard Buckminster Fulle

God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

Anonymous, Graffito

God is Love - - I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is.

Samuel Butle

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

Alan J. Perlis

I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

Hellen Kelle

The worshiper is the father of the gods.

H. L. Mencken

After all, he thought he was God.

FBI agent on why it was difficult to negotiate with David Koresh

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Isaac Asimov

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Vincent Van Gogh

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 Bulwer - Lytton

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Mahatma Ghandi

Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement... in relations between the two great nations on earth.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

Martin Luthe