God Quotes
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam.A. Whitney Griswold
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 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
My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made.Robert Browning
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
We are meant to be addicted to God, but we develop secondary addictions that temporarily appear to fix our problem.Edward M. Berckman
In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him."Aqualung" - Jethro Tull
Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.John Bunyan
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.Sophy Burnham
So many Gods, so many creeds So many ways that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all this sad world needs.Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Old postcard
Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ... there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ... one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God.... To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ... so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.Saint Augustine
God is always on the side of the big battalions.Voltaire
How God ever brings like to like.Home
Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.Ambrose of Milan
God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, thehelpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set them above their betters.H. L. Mencken
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
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
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.J. M. Barrie, British Playwright
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.Harry Emerson Fosdick
Thank God, I have done my duty. Kiss me, Hardy.Adm. Horatio Nelson, last words, 21 Oct 1805.
For God hates utterly The bray of bragging tongues.Sophocles
The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.Thomas Carlyle
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.Charlotte Bronte
The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.Jack London
God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil.Jean Jacques Rousseau
We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.R. W. Dale
The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.Charles Robert Darwin
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.Abraham Lincoln
God is really only another artist, he made the elephat, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas.Pablo Picasso
Life is a God - Damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety - Nine men out of a thousand are bastards.Theodore Dreiser, quoting an unnamed newspaper edito
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.Seneca
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
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
My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.Robert Browning
God be between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk.Ancient Egyptian Blessing
If God dropped acid, would he see people?Steven Wright
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.Karl Barth
Black holes are where God divided by zero.Stephen Wright
