God Quotes

I believe in God like I believe in the sun, not because I can see it, but because of it all things are seen.

C. S. Lewis

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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

Thomas Szasz

How do you define God Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawye

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

Socrates called beauty a short - Lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.

Francis Quarles

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Albert Einstein

Thank God, I have done my duty. Kiss me, Hardy.

Adm. Horatio Nelson, last words, 21 Oct 1805.

I am not God, but I am my creator.

Terry Josephson

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781 - 82

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

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.

Miguel de Cervantes

The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.

Charles Robert Darwin

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people He gives it to.

Joe Moore

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

C. S. Lewis

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Thomas Jefferson

God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.

Harvey Cox

A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.

Hunter S. Thompson

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive.

Irv Kupcinet

What a piece of work is a man how noble in reason how infinite in faculty in form and moving how express and admirable in action how like an angel in apprehension how like a god.

William Shakespeare

I want to go on living even after my death, And therefore I am grateful to God For giving this gift? Of expressing all that is in me.

Ann Frank, Diary of Ann Frank

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

Homer, The Iliad

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Jean Ingelow

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2

I go walking, and the hills loom above me, range upon range, one against the other. I cannot tell where one begins and another leaves off. But when I talk with God, He lifts me up where I can see clearly where everything has a distinct contour.

Madam Chaiang Kai - Shek

Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritual basis - And on a belief in God and an observance of moral principle. And in the long run only the church can provide that basis. Our founder knew this truth - And we will neglect it at our peril.

President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 p1063

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Give your hearts, but not into each other? s keeping, For only the hand of God can contain your hearts.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

He was a wise man who invented God.

Plato

The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.

Alfred A. Montapert

It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.

William M. Evarts

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self - Opinionated thinkers.

John Owen

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

G. C. Lichtenberg

Life is a God - Damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety - Nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

Theodore Dreiser, quoting an unnamed newspaper edito

God, I dont have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

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