God Quotes

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
Sophocles, Antigone
Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.
Matthew 1924 Bible
William shakespeare - god bless thee and put meekness in thy mind,...
Alan j. perlis - a year spent in artificial intelligence is enough...
We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw
In all religiousness there lurks the suspicion that we invented the story that God Loves us.
Sebastian Moore
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
C. S. Lewis, Chicken Soup for the Soul (book)
Mother theresa - we are all pencils in the hand of god....
I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.
Jean Ingelow
The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.
Charles Robert Darwin
The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.
Hesiod
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
Dag Hammarskjld
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Walt Whitman
If weakness may excuse, What Murderer, what Traitor, Parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it All Wickedness is Weakness That plea therefore With God or Man will gain thee no Remission.
John Milton
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
Thomas Jefferson
All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it.
Bob Newhart
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Thomas Jefferson
The voice of the people is the voice of God. Vox Populi, Vox Dei.
Alcuin
My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.
Robert Browning
We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming proud, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God call abominable.
Robert Cecil
The world is proof that God is a committee.
Bob Stokes
God is either everything, or He is nothing.
Bill Wilson, Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous
Let no one flatter himself of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.
Saint Augustine
Each of us, as members of the Body of Christ, has been given at least one spiritual gift. Besides this, there are the natural abilities with which God has endowed us. He intends these to primarily be used for the edification of the Body of believers. There is no such thing as a private gift Rom. 126 - 8.
Bruce Kempe
Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.
W. H. Auden
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
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
Paul Valery
No man can know God unless God has taught him that is to say, that without God, God cannot be known.
Iranaeus
It is occasionally possible to charge hell with a bucket of water, but against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
Doris Fleeson
For the birds that cannot soar, God has provided low branches.
Turkish Prove
The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods.
John Calvin
I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them God hath no better praise, And man in his hasty days Is honored for them.
Robert Bridges
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Leo Tolstoy
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 god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
Baltasar Gracian
For God hates utterly The bray of bragging tongues.
Sophocles
God must become an activity in our consciousness.
Joel S. Goldsmith
Prayer gives us the opportunity to speak to GOD, Meditation allows GOD to speak back to us.
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