God Quotes

We want God to come and save us. But he won? t. God doesn? t stop levees from failing, he doesn? t stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesn? t stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 09 - 09 - 05

America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.

President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangelicals, Columbus, Ohio

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer, The Odyssey

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

What a piece of work is a man how noble in reason how infinite in faculty in form and moving how express and admirable in action how like an angel in apprehension how like a god.

William Shakespeare

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

I believe that the power to make money is a gift from God.

John D. Rockefelle

Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.

La Bruyere

God gives us relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.

Ethel Mumford

God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees, and flowers, and clouds, and stars.

Martin Luthe

If theres one thing I know its God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.

Emmet Fox

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

George Bernard Shaw

Thank God I have done my duty.

Horation Nelson, Admiral British Navy, dying words

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Socrates

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Sophocles

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Karl Barth

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen.

The Talmud

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - The dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewrite.

Woody Allen

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

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!

Henry David Thoreau

Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink - Offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

Aeschylus (525 - 456 B. C.), Frag. 146 (trans. by Plumptre).

So many Gods, so many creeds So many ways that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all this sad world needs.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Old postcard

What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2

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

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.

Robert Collie

We say the name of God, but that is only habit.

Nikita Khrushchev

God made man because He loves stories.

Elie Wiesel

We have been God - Like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit - Like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

Arnold Toynbee

Not only as each new year dawns, but constantly, persistently, the God of all grace urges His blood - Bought children to give themselves to Him in complete surrender and so to prove to themselves how much more blessed it is to yield to His will than to indulge in their own.

Cornelius Stam

It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.

Robin Williams

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.

Bible, Jesus in Matthew 5: 9

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