God Quotes

B. b. warfield - a firm faith in the universal providence of god...
At any rate, I am convinced that He God does not play dice.
Albert Einstein
God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
May the sun always shine on your windowpane May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain May the hand of a friend always be near you May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
Blessing Irish
But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.
Socrates, Apology, (Plato)
Souls woven together by the gods can never be unraveled.
Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)
The worshiper is the father of the gods.
H. L. Mencken
If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex.
Art Hoppe
Magneto You are a god among insects. Never let anyone tell you different.
X2 X - Men United
At any rate, I am convinced that He God does not play dice.
Albert Einstein, In a letter to Max Born, 1926
Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.
Ambrose of Milan
Unknown - prayer is.... the salve on the wounds of our...
Deus ex machina A god from the machine.
Menander, The Woman Possessed with a Divinity
It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.
Homer, The Iliad
God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.
Wilberforce
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
Friedrich von Schille
God created sex. Priests created marriage.
Voltaire
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
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Daniel Webste
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
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
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!
Henry David Thoreau
I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.
Richard Wagne
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink - Offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
Aeschylus (525 - 456 B. C.), Frag. 146 (trans. by Plumptre).
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 of them.
Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fai
God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.
James M. Barrie
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.
The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past.
Samuel Butler, 1835 - 1902
I was baptized with the Holy Spirit when I took Him by simple faith in the Word of God.
R. A. Torrey
Whatever task God is calling us to, if it is yours it is mine, and if it is mine it is yours. We must do it together - Or be cast aside together.
Howard Hewlett Clark
God gave you a gift of 86, 400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you?
William Arthur Ward
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.
William Shakespeare
Pray, pray very much but beware of telling God what you want.
French Prove
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.
Swami Sivanada
God helps those who help themselves.
Anonymous
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
Sophocles, Antigone
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
Charlotte Bronte
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.
Thomas Paine, "The Age of Reason".
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