God Quotes

I talk to God, but the sky is empty.

Sylvia Plath

We are all in the hands of an omnipotent, omniscient, just and merciful God, and whatever may be the destiny of humanity for real or woe, there will be a universal and eternal amen to all that God does.

W. T. Ussery

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

However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.

Henry David Thoreau

Some people get angry because God put thorns on roses, while others praise him for putting roses among thorns.

Anonymous

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

Henry David Thoreau, Jan. 3, 1861

Thou art a Man, God is no more. Thy own humanity learn to adore.

William Blake

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.

Bible, Jesus in Matthew 5: 9

Men should not trust in God as if God did all, and yet labor earnestly as is he himself did all.

Allan K. Chalmers

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

I am responsible only to God and history.

Francisco Franco

God has always been hard on the poor.

Jean - Paul Marat

God, I don? t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 26, 2002

Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.

General Omar Bradley

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

Voltaire

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Reinhold Niebuhr, in a sermon in 1943

This ONLY is denied God The power to undo the past.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

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

Author Unknown

When a man marries, he has fulfilled half of his faith. So let him remain conscious of God regarding the remaining half.

Mohammed

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Abraham Lincoln

An honest man is the noblest work of God.

Alexander Pope

God is dead.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 108

No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.

Terry Goodkind

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

J. M. Barry

Be strong and of good courage be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

Joshua 19 Bible

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country.

Benjamin Franklin, letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789

We say the name of God, but that is only habit.

Nikita Khrushchev

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thank God kids never mean well.

Lily Tomlin

Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

I thank You, God, in Heaven, for friends.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangste

God will be present, whether asked or not.

Latin Prove

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

Henry David Thoreau

The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.

Charles Hodge

I am not God, but I am my creator.

Terry Josephson