God Quotes

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
I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them God hath no better praise, And man in his hasty days Is honored for them.
Robert Bridges
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
C. S. Lewis, Chicken Soup for the Soul (book)
There are two kinds of talents, man - Made talent and God - Given talent. With man - Made talent you have to work very hard. With God - Given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.
Pearl Bailey
H. l. mencken - the chief contribution of protestantism to human...
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
W. t. ussery - we are all in the hands of an omnipotent,...
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
Seneca
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C. S. Lewis
It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us.
Clive Staples Lewis
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
Friedrich von Schille
The worshiper is the father of the gods.
H. L. Mencken
Arthur john gossip - god is like the sun at high noon, always giving...
Far or forgot to me is nearShadow and sunlight are the sameThe vanished gods to me appearAnd one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me outWhen me they fly, I am the wingsI am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.
Anatole France
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde, An Ideal husband, 1893
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 beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God or Satan is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.
Stephen King
Before God we are all equally wise - And equally foolish.
Albert Einstein
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
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Mahatma Gandhi
The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.
Homer, The Iliad
Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man.... such a man is a true gentleman.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.
Martin Luthe
I put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
John Gillespie Magee Jr., High Flight
The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am responsible only to God and history.
Francisco Franco
The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.
Kahlil Gibran
Heaven means to be one with God.
Confucius
The condition upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
John Philpot Curran, in a speech July 10, 1790
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
You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide - Sounding Zeus puts a good mind.
Homer, The Iliad
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you God only can do that but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.
Tryon Edwards
What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.
George Bernard Shaw
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 Butler, The Note - Books of Samuel Butler (1912)
Even God cannot change the past.
Agathon
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
J. M. Barrie, British Playwright
Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.
Kahlil Gibran
At any rate, I am convinced that He God does not play dice.
Albert Einstein, In a letter to Max Born, 1926