God Quotes

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

Georges Duhamel

Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

Chapman Cohen, (1868 - 1954)

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Elbert Hubbard

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Jean Ingelow

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

Jewish Prove

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

If you suffer, thank God It is a sure sign that you are alive.

Elbert Hubbard

Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.

Walt Whitman

Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls.

Rabbi Harold Kushne

The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the things that makes God different from people is that God is always available to listen.

Rabbi David Wolpe

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people He gives it to.

Joe Moore

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

George Bernard Shaw

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it enthusiasm signifies God in us.

Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Stal Stal

I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience - - And laughter.

Susan M. Watkins

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Vincent Van Gogh

We are all in the hands of an omnipotent, omniscient, just and merciful God, and whatever may be the destiny of humanity for real or woe, there will be a universal and eternal amen to all that God does.

W. T. Ussery

God will be present, whether asked or not.

Latin Prove

All men have need of the gods.

Homer, The Odyssey

Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.

Benjamin Franklin

Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

History has proven, God has never given anyone a dream Without also including the power to achieve that dream It is up to us to claim the power and go after that dream, Or just claim, it was only a dream.

Unknown

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

Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement - Seat of the Gods.

Seneca

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

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

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

C. S. Lewis, Chicken Soup for the Soul (book)

God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.

J. M. Barry

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

Voltaire

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

Mark Twain

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

The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.

Sri da Avabhas

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

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

Anton Chekhov

And the wind shall say Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls.

T. S. Eliot