God Quotes

Souls woven together by the gods can never be unraveled.

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

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

William Penn

Thank God I have done my duty.

Horation Nelson, Admiral British Navy, dying words

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

Dorothy Parke

The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer, The Iliad

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

Agnes Repplie

Thank God kids never mean well.

Lily Tomlin

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Sufi Prove

You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.

P. T. Forsyth

He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books.

Samuel Butler, The Note - Books of Samuel Butler (1912)

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

Miguel de Cervantes

Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.

Kahlil Gibran

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

Thomas A. Edison

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man - Given. Be grateful. Conceit is self - Given. Be careful.

John Wooden

For the birds that cannot soar, God has provided low branches.

Turkish Prove

Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly... to revere God and be God.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Danger past, God forgotten.

Scottish Prove

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

Dag Hammarskjld

Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.

Miguel De Cervantes

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

Saint Augustine

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

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

Epictetus, Discourses

You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that - And shudder.

Bible, James 2: 19 (New International Version)

The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Not even the gods fight against necessity.

Simonides, from Plato, Dialogues, Protagoras

My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.

Robert Browning

Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket.

Winfield Hancock, Gods and Generals, pg 128, paragraph 3

You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.

Author Unknown

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

Marquis de Sade

I guess the hard thing for a lot of people to accept is why God would allow me to go running through their yards, yelling and spinning around.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.

Robin Williams

How God ever brings like to like.

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Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - The rest will be given.

Mother Theresa