God Quotes

The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.

John Calvin

By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self - Denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?

Jackie Mason

He was a wise man who invented God.

Plato

We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

William Penn

We have been God - Like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit - Like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

Arnold Toynbee

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

Thomas Fulle

God is in the details.

Mies van der Rohe

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Adela Rogers St. Johns

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)

America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.

President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangelicals, Columbus, Ohio

Loving is misery for women always. I shall never forgive God for making me a woman and dearly am I beginning to pay for the honour of owning a pretty face.

Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Karl Barth

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

You can pray for someone even if you dont think God exists.

Real Live Preache

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

Mahatma Gandhi

The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.

Karl Shapiro

This is the doctrine of justification. It is the wonderful fact that God imputes His righteousness to us and makes us immune to the condemnation of sin. Being justified, no sin can ever be imputed against us.

Art Sims

If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

Thomas Szasz

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

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

Chapman Cohen

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

God is dead, but fifty thousand social workers have risen to take his place.

J. D. McCoughey

May the road rise to meet you, May the wind be always at your back, May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again may god hold you in the palm of his hand.

Unknown

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.

Bible, Jesus in Matthew 5: 9

Art is a collarboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andr Gide

Not only as each new year dawns, but constantly, persistently, the God of all grace urges His blood - Bought children to give themselves to Him in complete surrender and so to prove to themselves how much more blessed it is to yield to His will than to indulge in their own.

Cornelius Stam

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

Alexander Woollcott

May there always be work for your hands to do, May your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine warm on your windowpane, May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you, And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.

Blessing Irish

Even God cannot change the past.

Agathon

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

Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.

Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

If there? s one thing I know it? s God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 05 - 01 - 04

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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