God Quotes

God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.

Harvey Cox

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

C. S. Lewis

Pray, pray very much but beware of telling God what you want.

French Prove

To God all things are beautiful, good, and right human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.

Heraclitus

What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

At any rate, I am convinced that He God does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

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

Austin L. Sorensen

I refuse to be labeled immoral merely because I am godless.

Peter Walke

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

But thou, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

1 Timothy 611 Bible

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Francis Quarles

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the godsThey kill us for their sport.

William Shakespeare

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men. He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.

Martin Luther King Jr.

God is in the details.

Mies van der Rohe

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.

Euripides

Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 122 Bible

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

J. M. Barrie, British Playwright

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Sir Francis Bacon

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

Henry Ward Beeche

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.

Dr. Robert Schulle

God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees, and flowers, and clouds, and stars.

Martin Luthe

Man plans and God laughs.

Hebrew Prove

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)

How God ever brings like to like.

Home

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

Oscar Wilde

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

Albert Einstein

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

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

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

There is a god within us, and we have intercourse with heaven. That spirit comes from abodes on high.

Ovid

One of the things that makes God different from people is that God is always available to listen.

Rabbi David Wolpe

America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.

President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangelicals, Columbus, Ohio

God be between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk.

Ancient Egyptian Blessing

In every good man a God doth dwell.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca