God Quotes

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Pierre Charron

When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one.

David Dean Rusk

In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.

James Agee

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Frederick Buechne

I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere.

Fran Lebowitz

Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.

Adel Bestavros

Black holes are where God divided by zero.

Stephen Wright

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 chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

H. L. Mencken

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

The Dhammapada

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 has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.

Wilberforce

I talk to God, but the sky is empty.

Sylvia Plath

How to make God laugh: Tell him your future plans.

Woody Allen

Man talking confidently about God is like a toy talking confidently about man.

B. J. Gupta

Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

God will be present, whether asked or not.

Latin Prove

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

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

James M. Barrie

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

Mark Twain

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.

Anna James

Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

Chapman Cohen, (1868 - 1954)

Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labo.

Virgil

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.

Dr. Robert Schulle

I definitely believe in God. How can you look at anything and not be overwhelmed by the miraculousness of it?

Chris Martin, Rolling Stone Magazine

A venturesome minority will always be eager to get off on their own... let them take risks, for Godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - That is the right and privilege of any free American.

16 Idaho Law Review 407, 420 - 1980.

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens.

Michel de Montaigne

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

O God! I ask You for the means to do good, to avoid evil and to love the poor.

Mohammed

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

I thank my God everytime I remember you.

Philippians 13 NIV Bible

Deus ex machina A god from the machine.

Menande

Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - Act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.

Kahlil Gibran

Friend, be not afraid of thy office, thou sendest me to God.

Saint Thomas More, upon being executed

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.

J. S. Bach