God Quotes

Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.

President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 pp548 - 549

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

John Owen

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

Bob Newhart

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

Philip Wylie

I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again.

George W. Bush, State of the Union address, January 20, 2004

Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad.

R. D. Laing

I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop

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

Miguel de Cervantes

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

The impotence of God is infinite.

Anatole France

I see God in every human being.

Mother Theresa

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Holiness is doing God? s will with a smile.

Mother Theresa

Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket.

Winfield Hancock, Gods and Generals, pg 128, paragraph 3

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

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

For God hates utterly The bray of bragging tongues.

Sophocles

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

Homer, The Iliad

But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture, Tell them that God bids us do good for evil. And thus I clothe my naked villainyWith odd old ends stolen forth of holy writ, And seem I a saint, when most I play the Devil.

William Shakespeare

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

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.

Epictetus

Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.

Macduff

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

Saint Teresa of Avila

When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty.

Woodrow Wilson

To God all things are beautiful, good, and right human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.

Heraclitus

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. To Canadian Parliament.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

J. S. Bach

When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03 - 25 - 05

Despair has been called the unforgivable sin - - Not presumably because God refuses to forgive it but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.

Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973

Danger past, God forgotten.

Scottish Prove

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 3 scene 1

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Nicholas Chamfort

I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

William Frank Buckley, Jr.

The gods help them that help themselves.

Aesop, Hercules and the Wagone

Live with men as if God saw you converse with God as if men heard you.

Seneca

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

Wilberforce