God Quotes
Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace.Saint Augustine
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.Stanley Lindquist
The gods too are fond of a joke.Aristotle
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
Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.Jean Rostand, Thoughts of a Biologist (1939)
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.Dag Hammarskjld
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.Pierre Charron
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
Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.Ralph Waldo Emerson
You God have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.Saint Augustine
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
For the birds that cannot soar, God has provided low branches.Turkish Prove
Some people get angry because God put thorns on roses, while others praise him for putting roses among thorns.Anonymous
Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
The gods help them that help themselves.Aesop, Hercules and the Wagone
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is.Jean Anouilh
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.Voltaire
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.Euripides, Phrixus
In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.James Agee
May the road rise to meet you, May the wind be always at your back, May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again may god hold you in the palm of his hand.Unknown
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.Mahatma Ghandi
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.Voltaire
He was a wise man who invented God.Plato
He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God.Kahlil Gibran
God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.Thomas H. Huxley
I think God is as much a basic ingredient in the universe as neutrons and positrons. This is the prime force, when we look around the universe.Gene Roddenberry
God is not in need of anything, but all things are in need of him.Marcus Aristides
Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel.Danish prove
In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.Frederick Buechne
If weakness may excuse, What Murderer, what Traitor, Parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it All Wickedness is Weakness That plea therefore With God or Man will gain thee no Remission.John Milton
The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.H. L. Mencken
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man - Given. Be grateful. Conceit is self - Given. Be careful.John Wooden
Live among men as if God beheld you speak to God as if men were listening.Seneca
Holiness is doing God? s will with a smile.Mother Theresa
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.Oscar Wilde, An Ideal husband, 1893
I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.Carl Jung
Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.Marcus Tullius Cicero
