God Quotes

Champions are a rare breed. They trust God while others ask for answers. They step forward while others pray for volunteers. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, the hardships.

Unknown

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.

Porque el miedo, sin ser Dios, suele hacer algo de nada. Fear can, though it is not God, create something from nothing.

Caspar de Aguila

Whoever is open, loyal, true of humane and affable demeanour honourable himself, and in his judgement of others faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man.... such a man is a true gentleman.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the victor had the gods on his side, the vanquished had Cato.

Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus) AD 39 - 65, The Civil War, bk. I, 128

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

Lenny Bruce

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.

Jesse Louis Jackson

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

Thou art a Man, God is no more. Thy own humanity learn to adore.

William Blake

Take my hand And lead me to salvation Take my love For love is everlasting And remember The truth that once was spoken To love another person Is to see the face of God.

Jean Valjean

In every good man a God doth dwell.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.

Thomas Paine, "The Age of Reason".

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Albert Einstein

Christ will remain a priest and king though He was never consecrated by any papist bishop or greased by any of those shavelings but he was ordained and consecrated by God Himself, and by Him anointed.

Martin Luthe

A child is not likely to find a father in God unless he finds something of God in his father.

Austin L. Sorensen

God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

Sir William Bragg

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

Ed McMahon

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

Voltaire

There but for the grace of God goes God.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

William Shakespeare

Whom the gods love dies young.

Menander, The Double Deceive

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - - To mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Henry Louis Mencken

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

Bible, James 2: 19 (New International Version)

I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not and whether we believe in God or not. So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.

Malcolm Boyd

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer, The Iliad

Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.

Pythagorus

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, I used everything you gave me.

Erma Bombeck

God made man because He loves stories.

Elie Wiesel

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

John Bunyan

I thank You, God, in Heaven, for friends.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangste

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 Butle

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

We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.

John Owen

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief.

A. Huxley, Island

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!

Othello

If you suffer, thank God It is a sure sign that you are alive.

Elbert Hubbard

God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.

Kahlil Gibran