God Quotes
I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of ME.Shirley MacLaine
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.Leo Tolstoy
God gives to every man virtue, temper, and understanding.William Coope
A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.Hunter S. Thompson
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of Mankind is Man.Alexander Pope
A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.John Ballantine Gough
Man plans and God laughs.Hebrew Prove
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain. Mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens.Friedrich von Schiller, Cohen & Cohen 1960, The Penguin dictionary of quotations
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?Seneca
But thou, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.1 Timothy 611 Bible
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!Henry David Thoreau
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.Euripides, Phrixus
I have no need of your God - Damned sympathy. I only wish to be entertained by some of your grosser reminiscences.Alexander Woollcott
I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.Jesse Louis Jackson
When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03 - 25 - 05
Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.W. H. Auden
We say the name of God, but that is only habit.Nikita Khrushchev
Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
The voice of the people is the voice of God. Vox Populi, Vox Dei.Alcuin
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.Thomas Szasz
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
Man talking confidently about God is like a toy talking confidently about man.B. J. Gupta
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
Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.Thomas Merton
God is seated in the hearts of all.Bhagavad Gita
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.Robert Collie
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.Alexandre Dumas, fils
Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - Act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
God gives us our relatives - Thank God we can choose our friends.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God or Satan is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.Stephen King
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
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.Woody Allen
There are three things which are real God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
A very large amount of human suffering and frustration is caused by the fact that many men and women are not content to be the sort of beings that God has made them, but try to persuade themselves that they are really beings of some different kind.Eric Mascall
We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.Albert Einstein
