God Quotes

God cannot alter the past, but historians can.
Samuel Butle
God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.
Ed McMahon
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
Paul Valery
Saint thomas more, upon being executed - friend, be not afraid of thy office, thou sendest...
Jewish prove - god could not be everywhere, and therefore he...
God is a thing that thinks.
Benedict Spinoza
If you suffer, thank God! - - It is a sure sign that you are alive.
Elbert Hubbard
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)
Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket.
Winfield Hancock, Gods and Generals, pg 128, paragraph 3
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink - Offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
Aeschylus (525 - 456 B. C.), Frag. 146 (trans. by Plumptre).
Henry david thoreau - however mean your life is, meet it and live it:...
Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.
Seneca, Epistles
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
Anon.
All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
Voltaire
The Knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
Blaise Pascal
As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us.
Clive Staples Lewis
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
Sophocles, Antigone
Love is the essence of God.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Voltaire
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Psalm 42, Book II, Holy Bible
Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves.
Anne Rice, Interview with a Vampire
How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.
Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000
Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Abraham Lincoln
The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher, Were each of them once a kiddie. A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature. Do I want one? God Forbiddie!
Ogden Nash
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.
I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.
Ronald Reagan
The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.
Margo Kaufman
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
G. K. Chesterton
The voice of the people is the voice of God.
Alcuin
I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.
Charles Dickens
Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.
Martin Luthe
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
Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.... The prayers of both could not be answered - - That of neither has been answered fully.
Abraham Lincoln
Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.
Pythagorus
God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
Sir William Bragg
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Man talking confidently about God is like a toy talking confidently about man.
B. J. Gupta
Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.
Jean Rostand, Thoughts of a Biologist (1939)
May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
Voltaire