God Quotes

Prayer gives us the opportunity to speak to GOD, Meditation allows GOD to speak back to us.

Unknown

I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.

Charles Dickens

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

The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.

C. H. Cooley

May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.

Voltaire

Human excellence means nothing unless it works with the consent of God.

Euripides

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.

Homer, The Odyssey

We are meant to be addicted to God, but we develop secondary addictions that temporarily appear to fix our problem.

Edward M. Berckman

God is dead.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 108

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

EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. Were looking for something, though were not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preache

Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.

William Blake

Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.

Miguel De Cervantes

Our first responsibility is not to build the Church or even to get souls saved - - It is to represent Christ and to bring His message to the world. As God beholds us in Christ, so the world must behold Christ in us. As Christ represents us before the Father, so we must represent Christ before the world.

Cornelius Stam

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.

Felix Adle

We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Watch for good times to retreat into yourself. Frequently meditate on how good God is to you.

Thomas a Kempis, quoted in the LDS Church News 8/20/2005

There is a god within us, and we have intercourse with heaven. That spirit comes from abodes on high.

Ovid

As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

Voltaire

Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.

Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery Forbid it, Almighty God I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.

Patrick Henry

He who does not have the church as his mother does not have God as his Father.

Saint Augustine

For God hates utterly The bray of bragging tongues.

Sophocles

If I could take all your words away and give you but a sparse few, they would be: ? I now know, I am absolute, I am complete, I am God, I am.? If there were no other words but these, you would no longer be limited to this plane.

Ramtha

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

Albert Einstein

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - - To mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Henry Louis Mencken

No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.

Terry Goodkind

God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.

Swedish Prove

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Albert Einstein

After all, he thought he was God.

FBI agent on why it was difficult to negotiate with David Koresh

Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam.

A. Whitney Griswold

A very large amount of human suffering and frustration is caused by the fact that many men and women are not content to be the sort of beings that God has made them, but try to persuade themselves that they are really beings of some different kind.

Eric Mascall

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief.

A. Huxley, Island

Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.... The prayers of both could not be answered - - That of neither has been answered fully.

Abraham Lincoln

The voice of the people is the voice of God.

Alcuin

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Galileo Galilei

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country.

Benjamin Franklin, letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789