God Quotes

Danger past, God forgotten.

Scottish Prove

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

The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

Thomas Carlyle

Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.

Homer, The Odyssey

But thou, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

1 Timothy 611 Bible

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca, Epistles

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

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

Mel Brooks

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

Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things.

Henry Ward Beeche

If there? s one thing I know it? s God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 05 - 01 - 04

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuh

A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.

John Ballantine Gough

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

Marquis de Sade

Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.

Herbert Westren Turnbull

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.

Thomas Jefferson

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.

General Omar Bradley

God loves the world through us.

Mother Theresa

If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

Thomas Szasz

We get new ideas from God every hour of our day when we put our trust in Him - - But we have to follow that inspiration up with perspiration - - we have to work to prove our faith. Remember that the bee that hangs around the hive never gets any honey.

Albert E. Cliffe

All sects are different, because they come from men morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

Voltaire

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

Friends are great and always seem to work by the appropriate will of God.

Jason Mraz

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

H. L. Mencken

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

A God all mercy is a God unjust.

Edward Young

We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.

Matthew 1924 Bible

Poor Mexico - So far from God and so close to the United States.

Porfirio Diaz, Biography of Porfirio Diaz

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Isaac Asimov

Heaven means to be one with God.

Confucius

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Horace Mann

What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.

Anatole France

I could prove God statistically.

George Gallup

We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.

R. W. Dale