God Quotes

Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands.

The Book of the Dead, The Address to the Gods, 1700 - 1000 B. C.

I put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

John Gillespie Magee Jr., High Flight

I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.

Wilberforce

God made man because He loves stories.

Elie Wiesel

Even God cannot change the past.

Agathon

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

I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.

Charles Dickens

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

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

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Mark Twain

God is love, but get it in writing.

Gypsy Rose Lee

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Albert Einstein

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

Cardinal Richelieu

The impotence of God is infinite.

Anatole France

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

God gives us memory so that we may have roses in December.

J. M. Barrie

The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

Carl Sandburg

How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What possible reason could he have for envying the gods.

Paul Claudel

I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not and whether we believe in God or not. So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.

Malcolm Boyd

You can pray for someone even if you dont think God exists.

Real Live Preache

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

Harry S. Truman

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

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.

Arthur Koestle

The Godless would deny and destroy human rights.... the liberties of a nation cannot be secure when belief in God is abandoned.

U. S. Senate Chaplain Richard Halverson

Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.

Kahlil Gibran

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

Mark Twain

God is dead, but fifty thousand social workers have risen to take his place.

J. D. McCoughey

God gives to every man virtue, temper, and understanding.

William Coope

God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

Sir William Bragg

Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.

Blaise Pascal

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

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

I have no need of your God - Damned sympathy. I only wish to be entertained by some of your grosser reminiscences.

Alexander Woollcott