God Quotes

By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self - Denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?

Jackie Mason

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!

Othello

May there always be work for your hands to do, May your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine warm on your windowpane, May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you, And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.

Blessing Irish

Waste no more time arguing what a god man should be. Be one.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Ten

God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!

William Shakespeare

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

Even God cannot change the past.

Agathon

But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture, Tell them that God bids us do good for evil. And thus I clothe my naked villainyWith odd old ends stolen forth of holy writ, And seem I a saint, when most I play the Devil.

William Shakespeare

The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are three things which are real God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

Mel Brooks

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

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

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)

A very large amount of human suffering and frustration is caused by the fact that many men and women are not content to be the sort of beings that God has made them, but try to persuade themselves that they are really beings of some different kind.

Eric Mascall

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

Paul Valery

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fai

The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

Larry Niven, Ringworld

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

One of the things that makes God different from people is that God is always available to listen.

Rabbi David Wolpe

No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Mahatma Ghandi

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

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewrite.

Woody Allen

The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.

Karl Shapiro

The dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic.

Henry Ward Beeche

I believe that the power to make money is a gift from God.

John D. Rockefelle

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.

Benjamin Franklin

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

We have been God - Like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit - Like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

Arnold Toynbee

America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.

President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangelicals, Columbus, Ohio

If men will not be governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants.

William Penn

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.

Harry S. Truman

Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 122 Bible

God loves the world through us.

Mother Theresa

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.

Alcoholics Anonymous Praye