God Quotes

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Thomas Jefferson (Motto on his seal)

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it enthusiasm signifies God in us.

Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Stal Stal

How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000

Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Socrates called beauty a short - Lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.

Francis Quarles

Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.

William Shakespeare

In saffron - Colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men.

Home

In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.

James Agee

Your food stamps will be stopped effective March, 1992, because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances.

Greenville County (S. C.) Department of Social Services, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior imapartiality.

Arnold Bennett

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

Dr. Robert Schulle

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

Psalm 42, Book II, Holy Bible

Thank God, I have done my duty. Kiss me, Hardy.

Adm. Horatio Nelson, last words, 21 Oct 1805.

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

Martin Luthe

But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture, Tell them that God bids us do good for evil. And thus I clothe my naked villainyWith odd old ends stolen forth of holy writ, And seem I a saint, when most I play the Devil.

William Shakespeare

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Cato the Elde

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

Porfirio Diaz, Biography of Porfirio Diaz

Love is the essence of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

William Shakespeare

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

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

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia - Denouncing the evils of slavery

If only God would give me some clear sign Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.

Woody Allen

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.

J. S. Bach

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

I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Oscar Wilde

May the sun always shine on your windowpane May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain May the hand of a friend always be near you May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.

Blessing Irish

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

Seneca

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

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

William Makepeace Thackeray

God gave you a gift of 86, 400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you?

William Arthur Ward

The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Edward M. Berckman

Help thyself, and God will help thee.

Jean de La Fontaine

If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.

Homer, The Iliad