God Quotes

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.
William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 5 scene 3
May it not be that, just as we have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us.
Wystan Hugh Auden
God enters by a private door into every individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ambrose gwinett bierce - this only is denied god the power to undo the...
Iranaeus - no man can know god unless god has taught him...
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of Mankind is Man.
Alexander Pope
Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.
Homer, The Odyssey
Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.
President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 pp548 - 549
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
Gilbert Chesterton
Mohammed - when a man marries, he has fulfilled half of his...
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
To love another person is to help them love God.
Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - - But to create him.
Arthur C. Clarke
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Niccolo Machiavelli, quoted in O Magazine, November 2003
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.
Victor Hugo
God bless thee and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty.
William Shakespeare
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
Henry Fielding
In making up the character of God, the old theologians failed to mention that He is of infinite cheerfulness. The omission has caused the world much tribulation.
Michael Monahan
All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!
Bob Newhart
The laughter of a man is the contentment of God.
John Weiss
God be between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk.
Ancient Egyptian Blessing
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - The dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.
Flavius Josephus, Life
Souls woven together by the gods can never be unraveled.
Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)
I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not and whether we believe in God or not. So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.
Malcolm Boyd
If the victor had the gods on his side, the vanquished had Cato.
Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus) AD 39 - 65, The Civil War, bk. I, 128
If there? s one thing I know it? s God does love a good joke.
Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 05 - 01 - 04
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
Emily Dickinson
Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror. Kill all and you are a God.
Jean Rostand
There are two kinds of talents, man - Made talent and God - Given talent. With man - Made talent you have to work very hard. With God - Given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.
Pearl Bailey
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
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
God gives us our relatives - - Thank God he lets us choose our friends.
Ethel Watts Mumford
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
Franz Werfel
At any rate, I am convinced that He God does not play dice.
Albert Einstein
Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
Homer, The Iliad
It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.
Horace Bushnell
Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.
Luthe