God Quotes

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

Johann von Goethe

Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.

Miguel De Cervantes

Man plans and God laughs.

Hebrew Prove

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

Heywood Broun

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens.

Michel de Montaigne

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

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

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

Friends are great and always seem to work by the appropriate will of God.

Jason Mraz

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

H. L. Mencken

It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned with religion.

Archbishop William Temple, 1955

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

Emmet Fox

I could prove God statistically.

George Gallup

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 could not be everywhere, and therefore he created mothers.

Jewish Prove

I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God? s true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow.

George Washington Carve

An honest man is the noblest work of God.

Alexander Pope

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

My sense of God is my sense of wonder about the Universe.

Albert Einstein

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

Jean Ingelow

Help thyself, and God will help thee.

Jean de La Fontaine

God gives us relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.

Ethel Mumford

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

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

God cannot alter the past, but historians can.

Samuel Butle

I think there are innumerable gods. What we here on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating trough human conciousness control events.

William S. Buroughs, Paris Review, Fall 1965

To believe God is a Privilege, To doubt God is an insult.

Unknown

In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill - Success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.

Barbara Paley

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.

Frederick Buechne

If God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?

Claire Boothe Luce

The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God you fear everything else.

Oswald Chambers

A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.

John Ballantine Gough

Whom the gods love dies young.

Menander, The Double Deceive

A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.

Thomas Merton

Christ will remain a priest and king though He was never consecrated by any papist bishop or greased by any of those shavelings but he was ordained and consecrated by God Himself, and by Him anointed.

Martin Luthe

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

Voltaire

When times are good, be happy, but when time are bad consider; God has made the one as well as the other.

Bible, Ecclesaistes 7: 14

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

Arthur C. Clarke

Do we, holding that gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantiated dreams, and lies, while random careless chance and change alone rule the world.

Euripides