God Quotes
A God all mercy is a God unjust.Edward Young
The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God.Deepak Chopra, The Path to Love
In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill - Success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.Barbara Paley
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.Homer, The Iliad
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.Nicholas Chamfort
May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this - when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.Homer, The Odyssey
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
This only is denied to God the power to undo the past.Agathon
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.William Makepeace Thackeray
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - - Trees, flowers, grass - - Grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... we need silence to be able to touch souls.Mother Theresa
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
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.Reinhold Niebuhr, in a sermon in 1943
Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.Alfred Lord Tennyson
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
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, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781 - 82
Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.Saint Augustine
Man talking confidently about God is like a toy talking confidently about man.B. J. Gupta
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.A. J. Toynbee
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.Abraham Joshua Heschel
All men have need of the gods.Homer, The Odyssey
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you God only can do that but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.Tryon Edwards
Love is a flame that burns in heaven, And whose soft reflections radiate to us. Two worlds are opened, two lives given to it. It is by love tht we double our being It is by love that we approach God.Aimee Martin
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.Henry Fielding
After all, he thought he was God.FBI agent on why it was difficult to negotiate with David Koresh
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
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
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.Phillips Brooks
Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.Kahlil Gibran
God has two dwellings one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.Izaak Walton
Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.... The prayers of both could not be answered - - That of neither has been answered fully.Abraham Lincoln
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.Paul Valery
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - The dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.Thomas Szasz
I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them God hath no better praise, And man in his hasty days Is honored for them.Robert Bridges
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.Saint Teresa of Avila
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
