God Quotes

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

Seneca

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Sophocles, Antigone

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

G. C. Lichtenberg

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

All men have need of the gods.

Homer, The Odyssey

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

Homer, The Iliad

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

Margaret Elizabeth Sangste

I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.

Oscar Wilde

The world is proof that God is a committee.

Bob Stokes

How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What possible reason could he have for envying the gods.

Paul Claudel

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

Leon Battista Alberti

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Woody Allen

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

Albert Einstein

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Frederick Buechne

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

Christians rejoice because God is their heavenly Father who forgives the penitent, because God sent his Son into the world for the salvation of all who have faith, because Jesus Christ not only died but was raised again from the dead and because joy is one of the ninefold fruits of the Spirit.

W. G. Morrice

I refuse to be labeled immoral merely because I am godless.

Peter Walke

If there? s one thing I know it? s God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 05 - 01 - 04

I talk to God, but the sky is empty.

Sylvia Plath

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Walt Whitman

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

Lin Yutang

We say the name of God, but that is only habit.

Nikita Khrushchev

I think there are innumerable gods. What we here on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating trough human conciousness control events.

William S. Buroughs, Paris Review, Fall 1965

Let no one flatter himself of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

Saint Augustine

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

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

Harry S. Truman

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

Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.

General Omar Bradley

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

John Wooden

We get new ideas from God every hour of our day when we put our trust in Him - - But we have to follow that inspiration up with perspiration - - we have to work to prove our faith. Remember that the bee that hangs around the hive never gets any honey.

Albert E. Cliffe

To love another person is to help them love God.

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts the rest are details.

Albert Einstein

Before God we are all equally wise - And equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

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