God Quotes

History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.
Albert Camus
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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
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
Lin Yutang
I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.
William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 3 scene 1
All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it.
Bob Newhart
I go walking, and the hills loom above me, range upon range, one against the other. I cannot tell where one begins and another leaves off. But when I talk with God, He lifts me up where I can see clearly where everything has a distinct contour.
Madam Chaiang Kai - Shek
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
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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty.
Woodrow Wilson
We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein
I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.
Jean Ingelow
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past.
Samuel Butler, 1835 - 1902
The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker? . . Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung - Hill croaking and squeaking for our sakes was the world created.
Julian the Apostate
Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.
Dwight D. Eisenhowe
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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
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Voltaire
Love of God is not always the same as love of good.
Hermann Hesse
God gives, but man must open his hand.
German Prove
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
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
C. S. Lewis
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
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.
Victor Hugo
Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
A. J. Toynbee
Thank God, I have done my duty. Kiss me, Hardy.
Adm. Horatio Nelson, last words, 21 Oct 1805.
Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money.
Mark Twain
God is a verb.
R. Buckminster Fulle
God is the God of truth and every spiritual quality must live with that holy attribute.
Edwin Holt Hughes
Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is, but let us consider the two possibilities. If you gain, you gain all if you lose you lose nothing. Hesitate not, then, to wager that He is.
Blaise Pascal
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
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 will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Elbert Hubbard
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Voltaire
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 up to us.
A. J. Toynbee
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
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
God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.
Alcoholics Anonymous Praye
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