God Quotes

So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - Neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

Homer, The Odyssey

Help thyself, and God will help thee.

Jean de La Fontaine

Loving is misery for women always. I shall never forgive God for making me a woman and dearly am I beginning to pay for the honour of owning a pretty face.

Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

There is a god within us, and we have intercourse with heaven. That spirit comes from abodes on high.

Ovid

An honest man is the noblest work of God.

Alexander Pope

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Sir Francis Bacon

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!

Patrick Henry

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

Steven Wright

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Thomas Paine

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.

George Santayana

In making up the character of God, the old theologians failed to mention that He is of infinite cheerfulness. The omission has caused the world much tribulation.

Michael Monahan

Whatever task God is calling us to, if it is yours it is mine, and if it is mine it is yours. We must do it together - Or be cast aside together.

Howard Hewlett Clark

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

The Dhammapada

God gives, but man must open his hand.

German Prove

The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

God is not in need of anything, but all things are in need of him.

Marcus Aristides

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 conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.

African Prove

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth we fully flower in heaven.

Russell M. Nelson

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

The dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic.

Henry Ward Beeche

I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of ME.

Shirley MacLaine

In saffron - Colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men.

Home

Magneto You are a god among insects. Never let anyone tell you different.

X2 X - Men United

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.

Benjamin Franklin

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

And now, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career, and just fade away... an old soldier who tried to do his duty, as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good - Bye.

Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Farewell address, quoted on "We Interrupt This Broadcast" CD - ROM

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.

Euripides

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - The rest will be given.

Mother Theresa

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Abraham Lincoln

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

Voltaire

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

Albert Einstein

One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of God? s existence.

Steve Aylett, Atom (a novel, 2000)

Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.

Tryon Edwards

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Abraham Lincoln