God Quotes

I could prove God statistically.

George Gallup

God gave teeth He will give bread.

Lithuanian Prove

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

Phillips Brooks

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

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

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man.

Horace

Despair has been called the unforgivable sin - - Not presumably because God refuses to forgive it but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.

Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

Johann von Goethe

He was a wise man who invented God.

Plato

Poor Mexico - So far from God and so close to the United States.

Porfirio Diaz, Biography of Porfirio Diaz

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

James M. Barrie

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

Paul Valery

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.

Harry S. Truman

God gives to every man virtue, temper, and understanding.

William Coope

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

Epictetus, Discourses

God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

Saint Augustine

The voice of the people is the voice of God.

Alcuin

Champions are a rare breed. They trust God while others ask for answers. They step forward while others pray for volunteers. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, the hardships.

Unknown

Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us a handful of stars.

Louis Untermeye

But thou, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

1 Timothy 611 Bible

It is pleasing to God whenever you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

Martin Luthe

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

Demosthenes

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

Saint Augustine

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Abraham Lincoln

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

Franz Werfel

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

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

Saint Augustine

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.

Mark Twain

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

Voltaire

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

Jorge Luis Borges

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

Sri da Avabhas

God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.

African Prove

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

Love is the essence of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

The Dhammapada

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I want to go on living even after my death, And therefore I am grateful to God For giving this gift? Of expressing all that is in me.

Ann Frank, Diary of Ann Frank