God Quotes

Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands.

The Book of the Dead, The Address to the Gods, 1700 - 1000 B. C.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

Paul Valery

Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.

Kahlil Gibran

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.

Anon.

I believe that the power to make money is a gift from God.

John D. Rockefelle

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

Robert Green Ingersoll

If men will not be governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants.

William Penn

The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.

C. H. Cooley

Create like a god. Command like a king. Work like a slave!

Constantin Brancusi

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

Carl Sandburg

SMILE GOD LOVES YOU.

Unknown

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

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

Paul Valery

Just as there is a lower carelessness which means death to the soul, so there is a higher carelessness which is the supreme gift of religion. We must all at length rest back upon God.

W. E. Orchard

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country.

Benjamin Franklin, letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789

He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.

Bill Bryson

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us.

Clive Staples Lewis

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

Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.

Emmet Fox

All sects are different, because they come from men morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

Voltaire

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it.

Bob Newhart

Well may we say God save the Queen, because nothing will save the Governor - General.

Gough Whitlam, Prime Minister of Australia, in a speech in 1975.

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Henry David Thoreau

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Karl Barth

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Agnes Repplie

Magneto You are a god among insects. Never let anyone tell you different.

X2 X - Men United

I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again.

George W. Bush, State of the Union address, January 20, 2004

Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is, but let us consider the two possibilities. If you gain, you gain all if you lose you lose nothing. Hesitate not, then, to wager that He is.

Blaise Pascal

God gives the nuts but he does not crack them.

German prove

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

The world is proof that God is a committee.

Bob Stokes

God gives, but man must open his hand.

German Prove

Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.

Thomas Jefferson

A child is not likely to find a father in God unless he finds something of God in his father.

Austin L. Sorensen

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.

Albert Einstein