God Quotes

I am responsible only to God and history.

Francisco Franco

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, thehelpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set them above their betters.

H. L. Mencken

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

C. S. Lewis, Chicken Soup for the Soul (book)

I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,... they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.

Oscar Levant

Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one.

David Dean Rusk

A God all mercy is a God unjust.

Edward Young

Deus ex machina A god from the machine.

Menander, The Woman Possessed with a Divinity

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

Harry S. Truman

Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel.

Danish prove

The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.

C. H. Cooley

Danger past, God forgotten.

Scottish Prove

Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace.

Saint Augustine

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

Vincent Van Gogh

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

Saint Teresa of Avila

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

Isaac Asimov

I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.

Charles Dickens

If theres one thing I know its God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

Live with men as if God saw you converse with God as if men heard you.

Seneca

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

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

Lin Yutang

God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.

Ed McMahon

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

William Shakespeare

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

Arthur C. Clarke

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

Watch for good times to retreat into yourself. Frequently meditate on how good God is to you.

Thomas a Kempis, quoted in the LDS Church News 8/20/2005

Prayer is.... the salve on the wounds of our spirit that we order from God in our moments with Him.

Unknown

Not only as each new year dawns, but constantly, persistently, the God of all grace urges His blood - Bought children to give themselves to Him in complete surrender and so to prove to themselves how much more blessed it is to yield to His will than to indulge in their own.

Cornelius Stam

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.

Euripides

We are all in the hands of an omnipotent, omniscient, just and merciful God, and whatever may be the destiny of humanity for real or woe, there will be a universal and eternal amen to all that God does.

W. T. Ussery

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.

Robert Collie

God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments as a nation have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.

George W. Bush, Klein, J. (2004). The perils of a righteous president. Time, May 17: 25.

Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain. Mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens.

Friedrich von Schiller, Cohen & Cohen 1960, The Penguin dictionary of quotations

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 3 scene 1

God gives us our relatives - - Thank God he lets us choose our friends.

Ethel Watts Mumford

Souls woven together by the gods can never be unraveled.

Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)

If I could take all your words away and give you but a sparse few, they would be: ? I now know, I am absolute, I am complete, I am God, I am.? If there were no other words but these, you would no longer be limited to this plane.

Ramtha