God Quotes

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
Robert Green Ingersoll
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
Arnold J. Toynbee
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
God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.
Kahlil Gibran
Francis quarles - if thou desire the love of god and man, be...
I refuse to be labeled immoral merely because I am godless.
Peter Walke
George bernard shaw - what god hath joined together no man shall put...
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
Jewish Prove
We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.
Victor Hugo
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
Albert coombs barnes - it does not require great learning to be a...
Do we, holding that gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantiated dreams, and lies, while random careless chance and change alone rule the world.
Euripides
Christians rejoice because God is their heavenly Father who forgives the penitent, because God sent his Son into the world for the salvation of all who have faith, because Jesus Christ not only died but was raised again from the dead and because joy is one of the ninefold fruits of the Spirit.
W. G. Morrice
A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.
John Ballantine Gough
Oh God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
William Shakespeare
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fai
Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.
William Shakespeare
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
Socrates, in Plato, Dialogues, Apology
We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Despair has been called the unforgivable sin - - Not presumably because God refuses to forgive it but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.
Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973
He who does not have the church as his mother does not have God as his Father.
Saint Augustine
While God waits for His temple to be built of love, Men bring stones.
Rabindranath Tagore
The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.
Homer, The Odyssey
When a man marries, he has fulfilled half of his faith. So let him remain conscious of God regarding the remaining half.
Mohammed
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
Leo Tolstoy
Gods are fragile things they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
Chapman Cohen
God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
Izaak Walton
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward Beeche
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
Friedrich von Schille
Religion is a defense against the experience of God.
Carl Jung
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Elbert Hubbard
Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God.
Kahlil Gibran
To God all things are beautiful, good, and right human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.
Heraclitus
Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
Cardinal Richelieu
Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money.
Mark Twain
The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
Thomas Carlyle