God Quotes

Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God.

Kahlil Gibran

When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03 - 25 - 05

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

There but for the grace of God goes God.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of God? s existence.

Steve Aylett, Atom (a novel, 2000)

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.

Frederick Buechne

The impotence of God is infinite.

Anatole France

For God hates utterly The bray of bragging tongues.

Sophocles, Antigone

God gives us our relatives - - Thank God he lets us choose our friends.

Ethel Watts Mumford

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

Bob Newhart

The world is proof that God is a committee.

Bob Stokes

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Thomas Jefferson

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

Themistocles, from Plutarch, Lives

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

Rebecca West

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer, The Odyssey

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

Voltaire

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other. God help me. Amen.

Martin Luther, in front of his inquisitors at the Diet of Worms.

God is dead.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 108

For the birds that cannot soar, God has provided low branches.

Turkish Prove

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

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

William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fai

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

Stephen Roberts

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Henry Ward Beeche

Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritual basis - And on a belief in God and an observance of moral principle. And in the long run only the church can provide that basis. Our founder knew this truth - And we will neglect it at our peril.

President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 p1063

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

Leon Battista Alberti

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

I guess the hard thing for a lot of people to accept is why God would allow me to go running through their yards, yelling and spinning around.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If there? s one thing I know it? s God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 05 - 01 - 04

I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,... they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.

Oscar Levant

Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.

William Shakespeare

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

Heywood Broun

You must believe in God in spite of what the clergy say.

Benjamin Jowett

Communism is what happens when, in the name of Mind, men free themselves from God.

Whittaker Chambers, from Witness (1952)

Deus ex machina A god from the machine.

Menande