God Quotes

When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one.
David Dean Rusk
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
Friedrich von Schille
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - The dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton
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
Elie wiesel, the perils of indifference - man can live far from god - - not outside god....
The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past.
Samuel Butler, 1835 - 1902
Franklin d. roosevelt - as americans, we go forward, in the service of...
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books.
Samuel Butler, The Note - Books of Samuel Butler (1912)
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
Danger past, God forgotten.
Scottish Prove
The best way to know God is to love many things.
Vincent Van Gogh
I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them God hath no better praise, And man in his hasty days Is honored for them.
Robert Bridges
Real live preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, february 13, 2003 - every path may lead you to god, even the weird...
All sects are different, because they come from men morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
Voltaire
Gods are fragile things they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
Chapman Cohen
The New Testament makes it abundantly clear that whenever the Kingdom of God was concerned Jesus was absolutely uncompromising, even when he realized that for him personally the alternative to compromise was crucifixion.
Ernest Fremont Title
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
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.
Bible, Jesus in Matthew 5: 9
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Thomas Paine
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?
Art Hoppe
Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.
A. W. Toze
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Phillips Brooks
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - - But to create him.
Arthur C. Clarke
Champions are a rare breed. They trust God while others ask for answers. They step forward while others pray for volunteers. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, the hardships.
Unknown
My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.
Robert Browning
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.
George Santayana
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
Franz Werfel
Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God.
T. T. Munge
God enters by a private door into every individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who belive in God against this tide of Red agnosticism. ... And in rejecting an atheistic other world, I am confident that the Almighty God will be with us.
President Herbert Hoover, in proposing the abolition of the United Nations, in favor of a "cooperation of God - Fearing free nat
Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives.
Terry Lynn Taylo
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
Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket.
Winfield Hancock, Gods and Generals, pg 128, paragraph 3
No man can know God unless God has taught him that is to say, that without God, God cannot be known.
Iranaeus
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
Sophy Burnham
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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