God Quotes

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

Nicholas Chamfort

We have been God - Like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit - Like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

Arnold Toynbee

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

Georges Duhamel

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Horace Mann

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a God playing the fool.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Cato the Elde

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 blind - Folded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

I see God in every human being.

Mother Theresa

Pray, pray very much but beware of telling God what you want.

French Prove

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

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Agnes Repplie

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

Dorothy Parke

There are two kinds of talents, man - Made talent and God - Given talent. With man - Made talent you have to work very hard. With God - Given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Pearl Bailey

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

Gilbert Chesterton

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Thomas Jefferson (Motto on his seal)

I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.

Carry Nation

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

Far or forgot to me is nearShadow and sunlight are the sameThe vanished gods to me appearAnd one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me outWhen me they fly, I am the wingsI am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

God is love, but get it in writing.

Gypsy Rose Lee

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

Chapman Cohen, (1868 - 1954)

All men have need of the gods.

Homer, The Odyssey

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.

Vincent Van Gogh

Waste no more time arguing what a god man should be. Be one.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Ten

The gods help them that help themselves.

Aesop, Hercules and the Wagone

Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 122 Bible

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Albert Einstein

Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things.

Henry Ward Beeche

Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

Michel de Montaigne

In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him.

"Aqualung" - Jethro Tull

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - - Trees, flowers, grass - - Grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... we need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Theresa

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!

Henry David Thoreau

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Karl Barth

You can pray for someone even if you dont think God exists.

Real Live Preache

I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience - - And laughter.

Susan M. Watkins

The condition upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

John Philpot Curran, in a speech July 10, 1790

Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labo.

Virgil

You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.

Author Unknown

God is really only another artist, he made the elephat, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas.

Pablo Picasso