God Quotes

He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.
Bill Bryson
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Niccolo Machiavelli, quoted in O Magazine, November 2003
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Voltaire
Lithuanian prove - god gave teeth he will give bread....
Mark twain - it is by the goodness of god that in our country...
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
Voltaire
A child is not likely to find a father in God unless he finds something of God in his father.
Austin L. Sorensen
Love of God is not always the same as love of good.
Hermann Hesse
I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
Jesse Louis Jackson
Thank God kids never mean well.
Lily Tomlin
Louis untermeye - nothing but blackness aboveand nothing that moves...
If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior.
Max Lucado
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
Paul Valery
Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.
Homer, The Odyssey
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Irv Kupcinet
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - But to create him.
Arthur C. Clarke
The worshiper is the father of the gods.
H. L. Mencken
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
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
Thomas Jefferson
God helps those who help themselves.
Anonymous
Deus ex machina A god from the machine.
Menander, The Woman Possessed with a Divinity
Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.
Homer, The Iliad
Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain. Mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens.
Friedrich von Schiller, Cohen & Cohen 1960, The Penguin dictionary of quotations
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
Woody Allen
It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.
Homer, The Iliad
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
Create like a god. Command like a king. Work like a slave!
Constantin Brancusi
This only is denied to God the power to undo the past.
Agathon
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
Euripides, Phrixus
Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.
President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 pp548 - 549
Love is a flame that burns in heaven, And whose soft reflections radiate to us. Two worlds are opened, two lives given to it. It is by love tht we double our being It is by love that we approach God.
Aimee Martin
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
Stephen Roberts
Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.
Adel Bestavros
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
There but for the grace of God go I.
John Bradford
The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past.
Samuel Butler, 1835 - 1902
God loves the world through us.
Mother Theresa
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.
Anna James
A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.
B. B. Warfield
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
Lin Yutang