God Quotes
Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.Seneca, Epistles
There but for the grace of God go I.John Bradford
Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.A. W. Toze
We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming proud, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God call abominable.Robert Cecil
The impotence of God is infinite.Anatole France
Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things.Henry Ward Beeche
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart for God now accepteth thy works. N. B. Eat, Drink and be merry. See also Luke 1219Ecclesiastes 97
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.Sophy Burnham
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.Baltasar Gracian
What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?Irv Kupcinet
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.Victor Hugo
Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain. Mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens.Friedrich von Schiller, Cohen & Cohen 1960, The Penguin dictionary of quotations
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
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!Patrick Henry
Let no one flatter himself of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.Saint Augustine
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.George Santayana
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.Voltaire
Some people get angry because God put thorns on roses, while others praise him for putting roses among thorns.Anonymous
God bears with the wicked, but not forever.Miguel de Cervantes
As we face a new era of world history, there is an urgent need for the true Church of Jesus Christ, the Body of Christ, to be about the business God has called us to, the work of ministry. And this is a work that every believer is called to be actively involved in.Edward Bedore
I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.J. S. Bach
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.Anatole France
He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.Bill Bryson
God is seated in the hearts of all.Bhagavad Gita
I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.Hellen Kelle
Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.Brigham Young
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.Henry Fielding
A God all mercy is a God unjust.Edward Young
God gives us memory so that we may have roses in December.J. M. Barrie
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
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
Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self - Opinionated thinkers.John Owen
Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement... in relations between the two great nations on earth.Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives - - DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.Dr. Dale E. Turne
Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.Horace Mann
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.Elbert Hubbard
I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.Ronald Reagan
