God Quotes

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Pierre Charron

O God! I ask You for the means to do good, to avoid evil and to love the poor.

Mohammed

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery Forbid it, Almighty God I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.

Patrick Henry

God gave teeth He will give bread.

Lithuanian Prove

Loving is misery for women always. I shall never forgive God for making me a woman and dearly am I beginning to pay for the honour of owning a pretty face.

Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Aristotle, Politics

God is like the sun at high noon, always giving all he has.

Arthur John Gossip

God gives us relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.

Ethel Mumford

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

Benjamin Harrison

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

Russell Wayne Bake

God is dead.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 108

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

Gilbert Chesterton

No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.

Terry Goodkind

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive.

Irv Kupcinet

Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritual basis - And on a belief in God and an observance of moral principle. And in the long run only the church can provide that basis. Our founder knew this truth - And we will neglect it at our peril.

President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 p1063

Some people get angry because God put thorns on roses, while others praise him for putting roses among thorns.

Anonymous

I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.

Richard Wagne

True poverty does not come from God.

Yiddish Prove

How God ever brings like to like.

Home

Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves.

Anne Rice, Interview with a Vampire

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.

Alfred Victor Vigny

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

Voltaire

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

G. K. Chesterton

I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

Hellen Kelle

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

Martin Luthe

It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.

Horace Bushnell

Age, health, and stage in life have nothing to do with serving or not serving. In each season of life there are attributes and qualities of life and experience that God values in service.

Bruce Kempe

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

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 1

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

Lin Yutang

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man.

Horace

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

Carl Jung

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

God is seated in the hearts of all.

Bhagavad Gita

God can be addressed, but not expressed.

Martin Bube

I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1850

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.

Plato

Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.

Benjamin Franklin