Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

God

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men. 52 views from George Eliot

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated. 78 more sayings from Voltaire

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him. 78 other thoughts from Voltaire

If there is no God, everything is permitted. 10 other sayings from Fyodor Dostoevsky

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him. 78 quotes from Voltaire

If you don't do your part, don't blame God. 10 other quotes from Billy Sunday

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends. 2 more views from Lucy Maud Montgomery

Life is God's novel. Let him write it. 10 thoughts from Isaac Bashevis Singer

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God. 32 other quotes from Martin Luther

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. 32 quotes from Martin Luther

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. 78 more quotes from Voltaire

Pray, and let God worry. 32 more quotes from Martin Luther

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride. 32 thoughts from Martin Luther

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory. 52 thoughts from George Eliot

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence. 78 quotes from Voltaire

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd. 78 sayings from Voltaire

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer. 32 more thoughts from Martin Luther

To love someone means to see him as God intended him. 10 more wisdom & wit from Fyodor Dostoevsky

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves. 52 more quotes from George Eliot

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible. 52 thoughts from Albert Camus

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God. 32 more thoughts from Martin Luther

When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together. 22 sayings from Jimi Hendrix

Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too. 32 quotes from William Blake

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired. 32 sayings from Martin Luther

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. 25 other sayings from C. S. Lewis

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. 25 wisdom & wit from C. S. Lewis

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. 25 sayings from C. S. Lewis

God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. 78 more sayings from Voltaire

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board. 98 thoughts from Mark Twain

I gave in, and admitted that God was God. 25 sayings from C. S. Lewis

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess. 32 thoughts from Martin Luther

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it. 78 thoughts from Voltaire

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. 98 other wisdom & wit from Mark Twain

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. 20 views from George S. Patton

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. 98 more wisdom & wit from Mark Twain

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. 98 views from Mark Twain

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. 98 other sayings from Mark Twain

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.' 25 views from C. S. Lewis

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. 52 more quotes from Albert Camus

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God. 78 wisdom & wit from Voltaire

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. 22 quotes from Andre Gide

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man. 10 quotes from Fyodor Dostoevsky

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times. 32 views from Martin Luther

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel. 32 other quotes from Martin Luther

Forgiveness is God's command. 32 quotes from Martin Luther

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. 78 wisdom & wit from Voltaire

God is not a dead equation! 14 quotes from Muhammad Iqbal

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best. 78 more quotes from Voltaire

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm. 12 quotes from William Cowper

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars. 32 other quotes from Martin Luther

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day. 10 sayings from Isaac Bashevis Singer

I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover. 10 other quotes from Billy Sunday

Adoration is caring for God above all else. 4 other quotes from Evelyn Underhill

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image. 5 more wisdom & wit from George Whitefield

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. 12 other quotes from Rudyard Kipling

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books. 68 wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods. 68 quotes from Samuel Butler

God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor. 68 quotes from Samuel Butler

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch. 68 views from Samuel Butler

God cannot alter the past, though historians can. 68 quotes from Samuel Butler

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal. 68 other views from Samuel Butler

God will forgive me. It's his job. 14 quotes from Heinrich Heine

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us. 68 other sayings from Samuel Butler

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain. 4 other views from Joyce Cary

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything. 23 views from Henry Miller

In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. 19 more quotes from Woodrow Wilson

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity. 12 more quotes from George MacDonald

Let every man be true and every god a liar. 68 more quotes from Samuel Butler

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God. 68 other wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him. 30 other quotes from Gustave Flaubert

Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name. 68 other wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. 26 sayings from Emily Dickinson

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes. 58 quotes from Thomas Carlyle

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door. 40 sayings from William James

If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people. 21 wisdom & wit from Abu Bakr

In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel. 2 more sayings from Henri Nouwen

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity. 4 quotes from Konrad Adenauer

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him for the one is only belief - the other contempt. 17 wisdom & wit from Plutarch

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how. 12 other thoughts from Thomas Merton

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. 45 more quotes from Thomas Fuller

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God. 4 views from Abraham Joshua Heschel

Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community. 2 thoughts from Henri Nouwen

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. 19 quotes from Anton Chekhov

Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people. 36 quotes from Lord Byron

Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God. 2 quotes from Christopher Love

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. 67 wisdom & wit from Francis Bacon

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. 16 more quotes from Alan Watts

The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me. 11 quotes from Meister Eckhart

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God. 56 views from Khalil Gibran

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity. 16 more quotes from Alan Watts

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. 16 wisdom & wit from Alan Watts

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me. 12 quotes from Thomas Merton

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility. 21 more sayings from Abu Bakr

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder. 2 more quotes from Charles Morgan

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God. 11 more views from Meister Eckhart

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God. 19 quotes from Anton Chekhov

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. 16 more views from Isaac Asimov

Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me. 19 other quotes from Elvis Presley

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing. 11 more thoughts from Robert E. Lee

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man. 37 other quotes from Edmund Burke

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me. 19 wisdom & wit from Elvis Presley

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art. 23 wisdom & wit from Paul Cezanne

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you. 16 quotes from Alan Watts

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion. 11 quotes from Meister Eckhart

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. 16 wisdom & wit from Alan Watts

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. 24 sayings from Carl Sandburg

A thick skin is a gift from God. 4 quotes from Konrad Adenauer

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption. 5 wisdom & wit from E. Stanley Jones

Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God. 8 quotes from Ernest Holmes

Every creature is a word of God. 11 quotes from Meister Eckhart

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?' 14 sayings from William Arthur Ward

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires. 67 wisdom & wit from Francis Bacon

God helps those who help themselves. 96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin

God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own. 2 other views from Johannes Tauler

God works wonders now and then Behold a lawyer, an honest man. 96 sayings from Benjamin Franklin

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. 96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them. 9 other quotes from Swami Vivekananda

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being. 9 quotes from Swami Vivekananda

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. 96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. 9 thoughts from Swami Vivekananda

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart. 11 quotes from Meister Eckhart

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. 45 other quotes from Thomas Fuller

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. 16 more sayings from Alan Watts

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on. 67 views from Francis Bacon

Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God. 21 other sayings from Abu Bakr

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us. 2 sayings from William Ames

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. 67 other views from Francis Bacon

God gave us our relatives thank God we can choose our friends. 3 other thoughts from Ethel Watts Mumford

God gives some more than others because some accept more than others. 8 more views from Ernest Holmes

God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends. 3 other quotes from Ethel Watts Mumford

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. 67 thoughts from Francis Bacon

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk. 11 wisdom & wit from Meister Eckhart

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life. 9 quotes from Swami Vivekananda

God's first creature, which was light. 67 sayings from Francis Bacon

He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise. 21 more quotes from Abu Bakr

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God. 20 views from Thomas Aquinas

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it. 30 more wisdom & wit from Virginia Woolf

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. 2 quotes from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God. 11 thoughts from Robert E. Lee

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself. 14 quotes from Loretta Young

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred. 7 sayings from Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. 7 quotes from Galileo Galilei

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side. 11 more views from Bob Marley

If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God. 10 quotes from Ramakrishna

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. 47 thoughts from Abraham Lincoln

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible. 30 more sayings from George Washington

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair the rest is in the hands of God. 30 quotes from George Washington

One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God. 10 thoughts from Ramakrishna

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. 47 sayings from Abraham Lincoln

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not. 24 more sayings from James Russell Lowell

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol. 7 more views from Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything. 10 views from Ramakrishna

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless. 25 quotes from Simone Weil

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man. 2 more views from Andres Segovia

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God. 73 other views from Victor Hugo

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. 31 quotes from Thomas Paine

Bondage is of the mind freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be. 10 sayings from Ramakrishna

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. 25 quotes from Simone Weil

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace. 24 quotes from James Russell Lowell

Conscience is God present in man. 73 quotes from Victor Hugo

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave. 2 other quotes from Constantin Brancusi

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh. 73 thoughts from Victor Hugo

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. 13 thoughts from Ansel Adams

God created man, but I could do better. 33 other quotes from Erma Bombeck

God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones. 8 quotes from Dwight L. Moody

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius. 5 quotes from Anna Pavlova

God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God. 10 thoughts from Ramakrishna

God is in all men, but all men are not in God that is why we suffer. 10 more quotes from Ramakrishna

God never made a promise that was too good to be true. 8 wisdom & wit from Dwight L. Moody

God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart. 5 quotes from Edna St. Vincent Millay

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive. 24 other thoughts from Ayn Rand

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. 73 quotes from Victor Hugo

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows. 14 quotes from Susan B. Anthony

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. 14 more thoughts from Susan B. Anthony

I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed. 7 quotes from Nikos Kazantzakis

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach. 73 other quotes from Victor Hugo

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes. 31 other views from Thomas Paine

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. 6 quotes from Charles Lindbergh

Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us. 31 more views from Thomas Paine

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter. 13 more quotes from Ansel Adams

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. 73 more quotes from Victor Hugo

Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it. 2 more wisdom & wit from Laura Ingalls Wilder

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not. 31 sayings from Thomas Paine

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence. 32 more quotes from Michel de Montaigne

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God. 73 sayings from Victor Hugo

To love another person is to see the face of God. 73 other quotes from Victor Hugo

To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God. 73 more quotes from Victor Hugo

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God. 8 more views from Dwight L. Moody

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. 73 other quotes from Victor Hugo

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. 16 quotes from Erich Fromm

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. 2 more quotes from Johann Sebastian Bach

The best way to know God is to love many things. 23 quotes from Vincent Van Gogh

We must return to nature and nature's god. 6 more views from Luther Burbank

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. 105 other quotes from Albert Einstein

God always takes the simplest way. 105 quotes from Albert Einstein

God does not play dice. 105 quotes from Albert Einstein

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. 18 quotes from Joseph Campbell

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul. 18 more wisdom & wit from Jean Paul

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean. 105 other wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty. 105 other quotes from Albert Einstein

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. 105 wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world. 105 other sayings from Albert Einstein

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God. 105 more quotes from Albert Einstein

Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God. 9 other quotes from Lawrence Welk

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him. 7 sayings from Pearl Bailey

We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. 105 other quotes from Albert Einstein

When the solution is simple, God is answering. 105 views from Albert Einstein

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. 17 sayings from Leo Buscaglia

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. 17 views from Tennessee Williams

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things. 23 views from Vincent Van Gogh

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes. 9 thoughts from Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. 8 views from Malcolm Muggeridge

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. 9 more wisdom & wit from Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible. 16 quotes from Michelangelo

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed. 23 quotes from Vincent Van Gogh

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered. 4 quotes from Jean Ingelow

I live and love in God's peculiar light. 16 quotes from Michelangelo

I will thank God for the day and the moment I have. 5 quotes from Jim Valvano

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. 81 more thoughts from William Shakespeare

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another. 81 quotes from William Shakespeare

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. 70 more thoughts from Thomas Jefferson

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just that his justice cannot sleep forever. 70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson

If God is just, I tremble for my country. 70 sayings from Thomas Jefferson

Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. 81 sayings from William Shakespeare

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. 70 more quotes from Thomas Jefferson

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. 7 more views from Corrie Ten Boom

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. 81 views from William Shakespeare

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! 81 more quotes from William Shakespeare

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. 70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. 7 other quotes from Alan Perlis

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. 20 other wisdom & wit from Anatole France

Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding. 7 views from Corrie Ten Boom

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man. 11 views from Charlie Chaplin

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have. 27 more wisdom & wit from Leonardo da Vinci

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy. 13 other wisdom & wit from Immanuel Kant

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it. 42 quotes from Josh Billings

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. 5 more quotes from Charlotte Bronte

Sex is God's joke on human beings. 21 sayings from Bette Davis

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God. 7 more thoughts from Arnold J. Toynbee

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. 22 other views from Soren Kierkegaard

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God. 52 more quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike. 6 wisdom & wit from Bernard Meltzer

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way. 6 more views from Karl Barth

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man. 43 quotes from Alexander Pope

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. 6 more wisdom & wit from Karl Barth

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind. 43 views from Alexander Pope

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light! 43 quotes from Alexander Pope

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God. 43 thoughts from Alexander Pope

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. 22 quotes from Soren Kierkegaard

The highest revelation is that God is in every man. 135 other wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God. 21 quotes from Malcolm X

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere. 135 thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson

We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient. 14 other sayings from Golda Meir

We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour. 52 other quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature. 135 wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life. 9 views from Jiddu Krishnamurti

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol. 35 other sayings from Rabindranath Tagore

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams. 135 sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. 22 other quotes from Soren Kierkegaard

God enters by a private door into every individual. 135 other thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. 22 more views from Soren Kierkegaard

A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished. 6 more quotes from Mikhail Bakunin

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. 43 other quotes from Alexander Pope

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. 43 quotes from Alexander Pope

An honest man's the noblest work of God. 43 quotes from Alexander Pope

Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you. 8 quotes from Bobby Darin

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God. 53 quotes from Honore de Balzac

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. 35 other quotes from Rabindranath Tagore

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest. 35 quotes from Rabindranath Tagore

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. 13 more quotes from James M. Barrie

God help those who do not help themselves. 10 other wisdom & wit from Wilson Mizner

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us. 23 more wisdom & wit from Niccolo Machiavelli

God screens us evermore from premature ideas. 135 other quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. 30 thoughts from Walt Whitman

I don't pray because I don't want to bore God. 15 other quotes from Orson Welles

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind and it didn't seem to matter. 15 quotes from Christopher Morley

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. 30 quotes from Walt Whitman

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears. 31 other thoughts from Helen Keller

They always win who side with God. 2 wisdom & wit from Frederick William Faber

Faith is different from proof the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. 57 other quotes from Blaise Pascal

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. 58 thoughts from Henry Ward Beecher

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses. 58 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how. 58 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas. 58 more quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness. 58 more quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars. 59 more quotes from Elbert Hubbard

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us. 57 wisdom & wit from Blaise Pascal

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright. 57 more views from Blaise Pascal

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. 47 other quotes from George Orwell

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. 26 wisdom & wit from Frank Lloyd Wright

I did my best, and God did the rest. 5 other quotes from Hattie McDaniel

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive. 59 other wisdom & wit from Elbert Hubbard

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist. 57 other views from Blaise Pascal

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason. 57 quotes from Blaise Pascal

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. 57 more quotes from Blaise Pascal

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God. 58 views from Henry Ward Beecher

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product. 21 views from Mignon McLaughlin

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. 6 more quotes from Charles Kingsley

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it. 58 more quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it. 57 sayings from Blaise Pascal

The dog is the god of frolic. 58 sayings from Henry Ward Beecher

The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic. 58 more views from Henry Ward Beecher

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work. 59 views from Elbert Hubbard

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him. 57 other quotes from Blaise Pascal

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. 15 more quotes from Reinhold Niebuhr

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet. 28 thoughts from William Butler Yeats

Theology is a science of mind applied to God. 58 other thoughts from Henry Ward Beecher

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell. 12 views from Marquis de Sade

We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things. 58 thoughts from Henry Ward Beecher

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's. 58 other quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one. 21 quotes from Mignon McLaughlin

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. 117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. 115 wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw

Trust in God - she will provide. 2 quotes from Emmeline Pankhurst

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. 5 more sayings from Oswald Chambers

What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. 117 wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. 8 other thoughts from William Makepeace Thackeray

There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God. 7 more sayings from John Calvin

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. 45 sayings from Aldous Huxley

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.' 5 wisdom & wit from Oswald Chambers

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. 7 other quotes from John Calvin

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. 7 quotes from John Calvin

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. 5 more quotes from Oswald Chambers

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them. 12 more thoughts from Franz Kafka

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us. 117 sayings from Henry David Thoreau

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts. 7 quotes from John Calvin

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it. 35 other wisdom & wit from Ernest Hemingway

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it. 115 more views from George Bernard Shaw

God has two dwellings one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. 4 quotes from Izaak Walton

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world. 2 more quotes from Paul Dirac

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's. 24 other quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. 50 wisdom & wit from Napoleon Bonaparte

In feature films the director is God in documentary films God is the director. 9 views from Alfred Hitchcock

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God. 2 other views from Anna Julia Cooper

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god. 50 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. 7 quotes from Jorge Luis Borges

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. 21 other quotes from Leo Tolstoy

It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor. 2 wisdom & wit from Vinoba Bhave

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. 60 quotes from H. L. Mencken

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will. 7 quotes from Pope Paul VI

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore. 60 quotes from H. L. Mencken

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. 4 sayings from Agatha Christie

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity. 3 other thoughts from Alfred Jarry

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man. 2 more views from Arthur Young

God bears with the wicked, but not forever. 21 other sayings from Miguel de Cervantes

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside. 14 wisdom & wit from F. Scott Fitzgerald

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts. 100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac. 100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

Each one prays to God according to his own light. 100 other wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him. 5 more views from Jim Elliot

God is a concept by which we measure our pain. 17 thoughts from John Lennon

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. 100 more quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless. 100 more quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us. 100 other wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following. 100 more quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. 100 quotes from Oscar Wilde

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. 100 quotes from Oscar Wilde

If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you. 13 more thoughts from Mahalia Jackson

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands. 100 wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity. 100 more wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him. 100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man. 100 views from Mahatma Gandhi

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God. 100 other views from Mahatma Gandhi

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty. 17 quotes from John Lennon

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will. 3 more views from Jonathan Edwards

Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking. 13 sayings from Mahalia Jackson

The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is. 2 quotes from Jupiter Hammon

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. 100 thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. 100 more quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god? 103 views from Friedrich Nietzsche

Where love is, there God is also. 100 more quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. 103 other quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. 8 other sayings from Thomas Browne

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it. 17 quotes from John Lennon

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful. 2 quotes from Jupiter Hammon

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible. 3 more quotes from George Bancroft

Einstein, stop telling God what to do! 9 views from Niels Bohr

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. 5 other quotes from Lenny Bruce

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight. 103 views from Friedrich Nietzsche

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. 16 views from Paul Valery

Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly. 5 other thoughts from Jim Elliot

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. 103 more quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. 103 sayings from Friedrich Nietzsche

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders? 103 more quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church. 7 more quotes from Matthew Henry

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants. 15 thoughts from William Penn

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand. 6 thoughts from Helen Hunt Jackson

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness. 7 other quotes from Matthew Henry

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob. 103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

One kills a man, one is an assassin one kills millions, one is a conqueror one kills everybody, one is a god. 13 views from Jean Rostand

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. 18 other thoughts from John Adams

Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all. 13 wisdom & wit from Mahalia Jackson

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god. 103 wisdom & wit from Friedrich Nietzsche

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God. 5 more quotes from Jim Elliot

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He. 103 thoughts from Friedrich Nietzsche

Woman was God's second mistake. 103 views from Friedrich Nietzsche