God Quotes

God is a thing that thinks.

Benedict Spinoza

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

Voltaire

You must believe in God in spite of what the clergy say.

Benjamin Jowett

As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men. He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.

Martin Luther King Jr.

To be closer to God, be closer to people.

Kahlil Gibran

God is dead.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 108

Souls woven together by the gods can never be unraveled.

Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)

Thank God, I have done my duty. Kiss me, Hardy.

Adm. Horatio Nelson, last words, 21 Oct 1805.

Man plans and God laughs.

Hebrew Prove

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

J. M. Barry

Before God we are all equally wise - And equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

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

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Abraham Lincoln

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.

Thomas Jefferson

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, I used everything you gave me.

Erma Bombeck

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

Susan M. Watkins

I could prove God statistically.

George Gallup

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Prayer is.... the salve on the wounds of our spirit that we order from God in our moments with Him.

Unknown

He who does not have the church as his mother does not have God as his Father.

Saint Augustine

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

Margaret Elizabeth Sangste

Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritual basis - And on a belief in God and an observance of moral principle. And in the long run only the church can provide that basis. Our founder knew this truth - And we will neglect it at our peril.

President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 p1063

Rejoice evermore. In every thing give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

Thessalonians 516, 18 Bible

Love is the essence of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I definitely believe in God. How can you look at anything and not be overwhelmed by the miraculousness of it?

Chris Martin, Rolling Stone Magazine

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Galileo Galilei

Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.

Pythagorus

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

Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.

Emmet Fox

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!

Patrick Henry

God is in the details.

Mies van der Rohe

We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.

R. W. Dale

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

Charles Hodge

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuh

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

Horace Mann