God Quotes

I thank You, God, in Heaven, for friends.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangste

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

Saint Thomas More, upon being executed

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

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

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

Cardinal Richelieu

The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer, The Iliad

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Thomas Jefferson (Motto on his seal)

The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

I talk to God, but the sky is empty.

Sylvia Plath

Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us a handful of stars.

Louis Untermeye

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Vincent Van Gogh

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Thomas Jefferson

Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel.

Danish prove

I put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

John Gillespie Magee Jr., High Flight

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

Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.

Matthew 1924 Bible

God help those who do not help themselves.

Wilson Mizne

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

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

Irv Kupcinet

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

Martin Luthe

Poor Mexico - So far from God and so close to the United States.

Porfirio Diaz, Biography of Porfirio Diaz

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people He gives it to.

Joe Moore

It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.

Albert Coombs Barnes

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

John the Elde

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God - Made object up to it a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art.

Marc Chagall

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

Daniel Webste

With stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

Friedrich von Schille

We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

To them that ask, where have you seen the gods, or how do you know for certain there are gods, that you are so devout in their worship I answer Neither have I ever seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Albert Einstein

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

Thomas A. Edison

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man - Given. Be grateful. Conceit is self - Given. Be careful.

John Wooden

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

How to make God laugh: Tell him your future plans.

Woody Allen

As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.

Franklin D. Roosevelt