God Quotes

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Wilberforce

If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives - - DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.

Dr. Dale E. Turne

We are all in the hands of an omnipotent, omniscient, just and merciful God, and whatever may be the destiny of humanity for real or woe, there will be a universal and eternal amen to all that God does.

W. T. Ussery

As we face a new era of world history, there is an urgent need for the true Church of Jesus Christ, the Body of Christ, to be about the business God has called us to, the work of ministry. And this is a work that every believer is called to be actively involved in.

Edward Bedore

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

H. L. Mencken

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 gives us our relatives - Thank God we can choose our friends.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

Mark Twain

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

Galileo Galilei

God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

Philip Wylie

If you suffer, thank God It is a sure sign that you are alive.

Elbert Hubbard

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.

Sufi Prove

God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.

Benjamin Franklin

God is the God of truth and every spiritual quality must live with that holy attribute.

Edwin Holt Hughes

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that money cannot buy; therefore value it, and be thankful for it.

Izaak Walton

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Daniel Webste

Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.

John Owen

Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.

Luthe

I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them God hath no better praise, And man in his hasty days Is honored for them.

Robert Bridges

Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.

Emmet Fox

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer, The Iliad

Holiness is doing God? s will with a smile.

Mother Theresa

God is seated in the hearts of all.

Bhagavad Gita

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Jacques Deval

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

Marquis de Sade

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Henry David Thoreau, Jan. 3, 1861

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - The dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man.

Horace

Human excellence means nothing unless it works with the consent of God.

Euripides

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

Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.

La Bruyere

If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

C. S. Lewis, Chicken Soup for the Soul (book)