God Quotes

If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.

Homer, The Iliad

There but for the grace of God go I.

John Bradford

Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Bible, Colossians 3: 16

Thank God kids never mean well.

Lily Tomlin

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

Jacques Deval

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Each of us, as members of the Body of Christ, has been given at least one spiritual gift. Besides this, there are the natural abilities with which God has endowed us. He intends these to primarily be used for the edification of the Body of believers. There is no such thing as a private gift Rom. 126 - 8.

Bruce Kempe

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.

Stanley Lindquist

Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money.

Mark Twain

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

I am not God, but I am my creator.

Terry Josephson

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Karl Barth

This ONLY is denied God The power to undo the past.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

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

Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Francis Quarles

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

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

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

May the sun always shine on your windowpane May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain May the hand of a friend always be near you May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.

Blessing Irish

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - But to create him.

Arthur C. Clarke

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

Help thyself, and God will help thee.

Jean de La Fontaine

Be strong and of good courage be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

Joshua 19 Bible

I want to know Gods thoughts.... all the rest are just details.

Albert Einstein

God is a verb.

R. Buckminster Fulle

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

William Shakespeare

Christians rejoice because God is their heavenly Father who forgives the penitent, because God sent his Son into the world for the salvation of all who have faith, because Jesus Christ not only died but was raised again from the dead and because joy is one of the ninefold fruits of the Spirit.

W. G. Morrice

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

Chapman Cohen

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

Thomas Szasz

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Seneca

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

Saint Thomas More, upon being executed

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

Eric Hoffe

God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

Izaak Walton

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

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

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

David Dean Rusk

The voice of the people is the voice of God. Vox Populi, Vox Dei.

Alcuin

We are all pencils in the hand of God.

Mother Theresa

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

Hippocrates, Regimen