God Quotes

Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

A. J. Toynbee

I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God? s true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow.

George Washington Carve

It is pleasing to God whenever you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

Martin Luthe

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides, The Bacchae, circa 407 B. C.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Samuel Butle

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

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

If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex.

Art Hoppe

The impotence of God is infinite.

Anatole France

Einstein said that God does not play dice with the universe. He was right, but not in the way he meant. God doesn? t play dice with the universe because the universe doesn? t need him. The craps table is set up and running. Whether or not God put it there is besides the point.

Mark Coggins, "The Immortal Game" (novel)

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.

Homer, The Odyssey

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Mitch True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend...

Old School

There are two kinds of people those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way.

C. S. Lewis

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

Thomas Fulle

Man can live far from God - - Not outside God. God is wherever we are. Even in suffering? Even in suffering.

Elie Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

Champions are a rare breed. They trust God while others ask for answers. They step forward while others pray for volunteers. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, the hardships.

Unknown

One of the self - Authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact that we know that for the evil in our lives we ourselves are responsible, but for the good God alone deserves the praise.

John L. Casteel

Heaven means to be one with God.

Confucius

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

Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.

Macduff

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.

Bible, Jesus in Matthew 5: 9

The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God.

Deepak Chopra, The Path to Love

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

For God hates utterly The bray of bragging tongues.

Sophocles, Antigone

Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or tremble... for the Lord, your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or forsake you.

Bible, Deuteronomy 31: 6 NAS

Your food stamps will be stopped effective March, 1992, because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances.

Greenville County (S. C.) Department of Social Services, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less.

John Christian Bovee

Thou art a Man, God is no more. Thy own humanity learn to adore.

William Blake

There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.

C. S. Robinson

God always has an angel of help for those who are willing to do their duty.

T. L. Cuyle

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

Epictetus, Discourses

I think there are innumerable gods. What we here on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating trough human conciousness control events.

William S. Buroughs, Paris Review, Fall 1965

God can be addressed, but not expressed.

Martin Bube

He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.

Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics