God Quotes

Live with men as if God saw you converse with God as if men heard you.

Seneca

I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.

Oscar Wilde

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Daniel Webste

I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

Socrates, in Plato, Dialogues, Apology

A venturesome minority will always be eager to get off on their own... let them take risks, for Godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - That is the right and privilege of any free American.

16 Idaho Law Review 407, 420 - 1980.

Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God.

Kahlil Gibran

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

I have no need of your God - Damned sympathy. I only wish to be entertained by some of your grosser reminiscences.

Alexander Woollcott

In the Norse mythology Loki originally was on the side of the rest of the gods, helping them once or twice using a particularly nast forms of trickery. He was a cunning negotiator with a talent for technicalities. He was sort of the Norse equivalent of a lawyer, no doubt the reason they tied him down in a pit dripping acidic venom on him.

Martin Terman

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

William Makepeace Thackeray

I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Oscar Wilde

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.

Home

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuh

We have been God - Like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit - Like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

Arnold Toynbee

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Hippocrates, Regimen

A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.

B. B. Warfield

Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart for God now accepteth thy works. N. B. Eat, Drink and be merry. See also Luke 1219

Ecclesiastes 97

God sells knowledge for labour - - Honour for risk.

Arabic Prove

Communism is what happens when, in the name of Mind, men free themselves from God.

Whittaker Chambers, from Witness (1952)

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

William Blake

Man talking confidently about God is like a toy talking confidently about man.

B. J. Gupta

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

We are all in the hands of an omnipotent, omniscient, just and merciful God, and whatever may be the destiny of humanity for real or woe, there will be a universal and eternal amen to all that God does.

W. T. Ussery

When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty.

Woodrow Wilson

Far or forgot to me is nearShadow and sunlight are the sameThe vanished gods to me appearAnd one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me outWhen me they fly, I am the wingsI am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.

John Calvin

As we face a new era of world history, there is an urgent need for the true Church of Jesus Christ, the Body of Christ, to be about the business God has called us to, the work of ministry. And this is a work that every believer is called to be actively involved in.

Edward Bedore

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

Mark Twain

You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide - Sounding Zeus puts a good mind.

Homer, The Iliad

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

Friend, be not afraid of thy office, thou sendest me to God.

Saint Thomas More, upon being executed

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

Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

While God waits for His temple to be built of love, Men bring stones.

Rabindranath Tagore

Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

William Ralph Inge

Art is a collarboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andr Gide

History is a vision of God? s creation on the move.

Arnold Toynbee