God Quotes

Surely God causes the seed and the stone to sprout He brings forth the living from the dead, and He is the bringer forth of the dead from the living.

Koran

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Cato the Elde

Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.

Home

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

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is.

Jean Anouilh

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 1

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

Dag Hammarskjld

The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

Larry Niven, Ringworld

I refuse to be labeled immoral merely because I am godless.

Peter Walke

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

Art Hoppe

He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Prayer is.... the salve on the wounds of our spirit that we order from God in our moments with Him.

Unknown

May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this - when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.

Homer, The Odyssey

There are three things which are real God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

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

John Christian Bovee

EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. We? re looking for something, though we? re not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, February 13, 2003

In the Norse mythology Loki originally was on the side of the rest of the gods, helping them once or twice using a particularly nast forms of trickery. He was a cunning negotiator with a talent for technicalities. He was sort of the Norse equivalent of a lawyer, no doubt the reason they tied him down in a pit dripping acidic venom on him.

Martin Terman

A God all mercy is a God unjust.

Edward Young

Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God.

Kahlil Gibran

I have no need of your God - Damned sympathy. I only wish to be entertained by some of your grosser reminiscences.

Alexander Woollcott

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

Georges Duhamel

Waste no more time arguing what a god man should be. Be one.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Ten

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)

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

Alfred Jarry

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

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.

Plato

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

J. M. Barrie, British Playwright

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

Galileo Galilei

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

Leon Battista Alberti

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

Saint Augustine

Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror. Kill all and you are a God.

Jean Rostand

God is dead.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 108

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

George Bernard Shaw

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.

Agnes Repplie

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.

Albert Einstein

True poverty does not come from God.

Yiddish Prove