God Quotes

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

Alfred Jarry

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

Elbert Hubbard

God cannot alter the past, but historians can.

Samuel Butle

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

The impotence of God is infinite.

Anatole France

Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.

Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)

The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.

John Calvin

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

H. L. Mencken

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.

George Santayana

God has always been hard on the poor.

Jean - Paul Marat

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

Margaret Elizabeth Sangste

Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.

Matthew 1924 Bible

Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives.

Terry Lynn Taylo

Create like a god. Command like a king. Work like a slave!

Constantin Brancusi

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

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that money cannot buy; therefore value it, and be thankful for it.

Izaak Walton

Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement... in relations between the two great nations on earth.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

Heywood Broun

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

Mel Brooks

Each of us, as members of the Body of Christ, has been given at least one spiritual gift. Besides this, there are the natural abilities with which God has endowed us. He intends these to primarily be used for the edification of the Body of believers. There is no such thing as a private gift Rom. 126 - 8.

Bruce Kempe

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Mark Twain

Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.

Walt Whitman

He who does not have the church as his mother does not have God as his Father.

Saint Augustine

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

St. Francis of Assisi

God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.

Benjamin Franklin

This is how God showed His love among us He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him.

1 John 49 NIV Bible

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

Home

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

Paul Valery

Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement - Seat of the Gods.

Seneca

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)

The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.

Publilius Syrus

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Arthur C. Clarke

If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

Thomas Szasz

The gods help them that help themselves.

Aesop, Hercules and the Wagone