God Quotes

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

How God ever brings like to like.

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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

Mahatma Gandhi

The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.

Margo Kaufman

God save me from my friends. I can protect myself from my enemies.

Claude Louis Hector de Villars

Life has. taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

Alan Stewart Paton

We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.

John Owen

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - - To mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Henry Louis Mencken

Deus ex machina A god from the machine.

Menande

This is how God showed His love among us He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him.

1 John 49 NIV Bible

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

I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.

Charles Dickens

Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.

Kahlil Gibran

God loves the world through us.

Mother Theresa

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Thomas Jefferson (Motto on his seal)

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

Lin Yutang

History has proven, God has never given anyone a dream Without also including the power to achieve that dream It is up to us to claim the power and go after that dream, Or just claim, it was only a dream.

Unknown

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

You must believe in God in spite of what the clergy say.

Benjamin Jowett

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

Coventry Patmore

In God we trust all others must pay cash.

American Prove

Souls woven together by the gods can never be unraveled.

Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

Socrates called beauty a short - Lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.

Francis Quarles

I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.

Ronald Reagan

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.

Anatole France

Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.

Adel Bestavros

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.

George Bernard Shaw

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

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

George Smith Patton, Jr.

Love is a flame that burns in heaven, And whose soft reflections radiate to us. Two worlds are opened, two lives given to it. It is by love tht we double our being It is by love that we approach God.

Aimee Martin

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.

Vincent Van Gogh

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

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.

Benjamin Franklin

God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

Philip Wylie

Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Bible, Colossians 3: 16

Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.

General Omar Bradley