God Quotes
God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.Johann von Goethe
Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.Brigham Young
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.Thomas Jefferson
When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03 - 25 - 05
Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.John Calvin
Question with boldness even the existance of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.Thomas Jefferson
There is a god within us, and we have intercourse with heaven. That spirit comes from abodes on high.Ovid
Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.Thomas Merton
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.Abraham Joshua Heschel
Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.Macduff
I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere.Fran Lebowitz
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.Leo Tolstoy
God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.Saint Augustine
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.Seneca
The Knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.Blaise Pascal
Thank God kids never mean well.Lily Tomlin
Even God cannot change the past.Agathon
You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.Author Unknown
What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.Albert Einstein
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
Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain. Mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens.Friedrich von Schiller, Cohen & Cohen 1960, The Penguin dictionary of quotations
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.Harry Emerson Fosdick
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
I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.Ronald Reagan
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?Epictetus, Discourses
God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil.Jean Jacques Rousseau
How to make God laugh: Tell him your future plans.Woody Allen
I refuse to be labeled immoral merely because I am godless.Peter Walke
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive.Irv Kupcinet
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
I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.Hellen Kelle
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.Oscar Wilde, An Ideal husband, 1893
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
In every good man a God doth dwell.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - But to create him.Arthur C. Clarke
I have no need of your God - Damned sympathy. I only wish to be entertained by some of your grosser reminiscences.Alexander Woollcott
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.Horace Mann
