God Quotes

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

I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.

Oscar Wilde

God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, thehelpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set them above their betters.

H. L. Mencken

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

Henry Ward Beeche

EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. We? re looking for something, though we? re not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, February 13, 2003

I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.

Charles Dickens

God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

John the Elde

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

Thomas A. Edison

God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.

J. M. Barrie

A very large amount of human suffering and frustration is caused by the fact that many men and women are not content to be the sort of beings that God has made them, but try to persuade themselves that they are really beings of some different kind.

Eric Mascall

Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.

William Shakespeare

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

G. C. Lichtenberg

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Seneca

The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

Thomas Carlyle

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands.

The Book of the Dead, The Address to the Gods, 1700 - 1000 B. C.

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

Henry Ward Beeche

A God all mercy is a God unjust.

Edward Young

The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.

C. H. Cooley

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

Demosthenes

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.

Albert Coombs Barnes

God is Love - - I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is.

Samuel Butle

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

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Jacques Deval

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

Age, health, and stage in life have nothing to do with serving or not serving. In each season of life there are attributes and qualities of life and experience that God values in service.

Bruce Kempe

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

C. S. Lewis

One of the self - Authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact that we know that for the evil in our lives we ourselves are responsible, but for the good God alone deserves the praise.

John L. Casteel

Friend, be not afraid of thy office, thou sendest me to God.

Saint Thomas More, upon being executed

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

George Bernard Shaw

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

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe