God Quotes

Archbishop william temple, 1955 - it is a mistake to suppose that god is only, or...
God gives us relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.
Ethel Mumford
If you suffer, thank God! - - It is a sure sign that you are alive.
Elbert Hubbard
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
Cato the Elde
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg.
Thomas Jefferson
It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.
Thomas Merton
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
God is in the details.
Mies van der Rohe
Sebastian moore - in all religiousness there lurks the suspicion...
The dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic.
Henry Ward Beeche
We want God to come and save us. But he won? t. God doesn? t stop levees from failing, he doesn? t stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesn? t stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.
Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 09 - 09 - 05
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Aristotle, Politics
God be between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk.
Ancient Egyptian Blessing
Gods are fragile things they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
Chapman Cohen
God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
Benjamin Franklin
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
How God ever brings like to like.
Home
God is dead, but fifty thousand social workers have risen to take his place.
J. D. McCoughey
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)
God has always been hard on the poor.
Jean - Paul Marat
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.
Tryon Edwards
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
Horace, Odes
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
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and 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
A God all mercy is a God unjust.
Edward Young
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Samuel Butle
The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.
John Calvin
I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
Izaak Walton
God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men. He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.
Martin Luther King Jr.
I put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
John Gillespie Magee Jr., High Flight
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
May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this - when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.
Homer, The Odyssey
Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.
Emmet Fox
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.
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
Cardinal Richelieu
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
Abraham Lincoln
How do you define God Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.
Robert J. Sawye
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
Anton Chekhov
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - The rest will be given.
Mother Theresa