God Quotes

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fai

Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.

William Shakespeare

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 3 scene 1

Whom the gods love dies young.

Menander, The Double Deceive

To God all things are beautiful, good, and right human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.

Heraclitus

Man can live far from God - - Not outside God. God is wherever we are. Even in suffering? Even in suffering.

Elie Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

C. S. Lewis

No man can know God unless God has taught him that is to say, that without God, God cannot be known.

Iranaeus

Einstein said that God does not play dice with the universe. He was right, but not in the way he meant. God doesn? t play dice with the universe because the universe doesn? t need him. The craps table is set up and running. Whether or not God put it there is besides the point.

Mark Coggins, "The Immortal Game" (novel)

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Reinhold Niebuhr, in a sermon in 1943

Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia - Denouncing the evils of slavery

If the victor had the gods on his side, the vanquished had Cato.

Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus) AD 39 - 65, The Civil War, bk. I, 128

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

Aeschylus

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

I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1850

Danger past, God forgotten.

Scottish Prove

Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or tremble... for the Lord, your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or forsake you.

Bible, Deuteronomy 31: 6 NAS

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.

Stanley Lindquist

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

Do we, holding that gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantiated dreams, and lies, while random careless chance and change alone rule the world.

Euripides

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Plato

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Alexander Pope

There are three things which are real God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

J. M. Barrie

The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

Larry Niven, Ringworld

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Mark Twain

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

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior imapartiality.

Arnold Bennett

Create like a god. Command like a king. Work like a slave!

Constantin Brancusi

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Jorge Luis Borges

God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.

Harvey Cox

The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods.

John Calvin

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

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.

Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon

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