God Quotes

I think there are innumerable gods. What we here on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating trough human conciousness control events.

William S. Buroughs, Paris Review, Fall 1965

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Prove

The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is.

Jean Anouilh

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

H. L. Mencken

I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.

Sufi Prove

God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.

Thomas H. Huxley

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it.

Bob Newhart

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.

J. S. Bach

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

G. C. Lichtenberg

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.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Nicholas Chamfort

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

Albert Einstein

Einstein said that God does not play dice with the universe. He was right, but not in the way he meant. God doesn? t play dice with the universe because the universe doesn? t need him. The craps table is set up and running. Whether or not God put it there is besides the point.

Mark Coggins, "The Immortal Game" (novel)

With stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

Friedrich von Schille

Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.

Swami Sivanada

God bless thee and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty.

William Shakespeare

God will be present, whether asked or not.

Latin Prove

He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.

Bill Bryson

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

Demosthenes

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ... there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ... one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God.... To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ... so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.

Saint Augustine

In the Norse mythology Loki originally was on the side of the rest of the gods, helping them once or twice using a particularly nast forms of trickery. He was a cunning negotiator with a talent for technicalities. He was sort of the Norse equivalent of a lawyer, no doubt the reason they tied him down in a pit dripping acidic venom on him.

Martin Terman

Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.

Pythagorus

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 Butle

The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer, The Iliad

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Albert Einstein

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Francis Quarles

I want to know Gods thoughts.... all the rest are just details.

Albert Einstein

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a God playing the fool.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live with men as if God saw you converse with God as if men heard you.

Seneca

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

J. M. Barrie, British Playwright

While God waits for His temple to be built of love, Men bring stones.

Rabindranath Tagore

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

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