God Quotes

Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Bible, Colossians 3: 16

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.

Euripides

Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.

Homer, The Iliad

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a God playing the fool.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket.

Winfield Hancock, Gods and Generals, pg 128, paragraph 3

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

Mel Brooks

A child is not likely to find a father in God unless he finds something of God in his father.

Austin L. Sorensen

When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one.

David Dean Rusk

Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - But to create him.

Arthur C. Clarke

God is a verb.

R. Buckminster Fulle

In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him.

"Aqualung" - Jethro Tull

The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past.

Samuel Butler, 1835 - 1902

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Thomas Jefferson

Friends are great and always seem to work by the appropriate will of God.

Jason Mraz

There but for the grace of God goes God.

Sir Winston Churchill

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

Eric Hoffe

Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.

Kahlil Gibran

Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ... there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ... one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God.... To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ... so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.

Saint Augustine

No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.

Kahlil Gibran

Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you God only can do that but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.

Tryon Edwards

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

Paul Valery

I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God? s true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow.

George Washington Carve

Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.

Luthe

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.

Vincent Van Gogh

In all religiousness there lurks the suspicion that we invented the story that God Loves us.

Sebastian Moore

The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer, The Iliad

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides, The Bacchae, circa 407 B. C.

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

Alfred Jarry

I could prove God statistically.

George Gallup

God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper.

Richard Buckminster Fulle

In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.

James Agee

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 our responsibility.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The Lord God is subtle, but malicious He is not.

Albert Einstein

If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex.

Art Hoppe

We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.

R. W. Dale