God Quotes

You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that - And shudder.

Bible, James 2: 19 (New International Version)

If men will not be governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants.

William Penn

The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.

Charles Hodge

God loves the world through us.

Mother Theresa

Your food stamps will be stopped effective March, 1992, because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances.

Greenville County (S. C.) Department of Social Services, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.

Epicurus

And now, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career, and just fade away... an old soldier who tried to do his duty, as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good - Bye.

Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Farewell address, quoted on "We Interrupt This Broadcast" CD - ROM

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

Dag Hammarskjld

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

Mark Twain

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it.

Bob Newhart

In making up the character of God, the old theologians failed to mention that He is of infinite cheerfulness. The omission has caused the world much tribulation.

Michael Monahan

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, 1976

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

Henry Ward Beeche

Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.

Blaise Pascal

For God hates utterly The bray of bragging tongues.

Sophocles, Antigone

I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.

Oscar Wilde

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

Martin Luthe

God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.

Ed McMahon

God creates men, but they choose each other.

Niccolo Machiavelli, quoted in O Magazine, November 2003

Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men in praise we act like angels.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

Benjamin Harrison

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

James M. Barrie

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

Voltaire