God Quotes

There is a god within us, and we have intercourse with heaven. That spirit comes from abodes on high.

Ovid

However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.

Henry David Thoreau

Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.

Soren Kierkegaard

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

Themistocles, from Plutarch, Lives

Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.

Epictetus

We are meant to be addicted to God, but we develop secondary addictions that temporarily appear to fix our problem.

Edward M. Berckman

Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.

Blaise Pascal

My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made.

Robert Browning

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuh

Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls.

Rabbi Harold Kushne

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

Martin Luthe

Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.

Walt Whitman

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Mark Twain

Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement... in relations between the two great nations on earth.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of ME.

Shirley MacLaine

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Mahatma Ghandi

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Age, health, and stage in life have nothing to do with serving or not serving. In each season of life there are attributes and qualities of life and experience that God values in service.

Bruce Kempe

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

Baltasar Gracian

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

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

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

Anton Chekhov

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

God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.

Homer, The Iliad

When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty.

Woodrow Wilson

We say the name of God, but that is only habit.

Nikita Khrushchev

The gods help them that help themselves.

Aesop, Hercules and the Wagone

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg.

Thomas Jefferson

God is a verb.

R. Buckminster Fulle

I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,... they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.

Oscar Levant

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Sir Francis Bacon

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Hippocrates, Regimen

Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.

Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon

Whatever task God is calling us to, if it is yours it is mine, and if it is mine it is yours. We must do it together - Or be cast aside together.

Howard Hewlett Clark

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.

Thomas Jefferson

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

Miguel de Cervantes