Famous God Quotes
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?
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?
Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good.
We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
God doesn’t know things. He is things.
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!
Progress is the stride of God.
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Conscience is God present in man.
Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
God’s little Blond Blessing we have long deemed you, and hope his so-called Will will not compel him to revoke you.
God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man’s hands.
A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.
I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.
God helps them that help themselves
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God’s dust is greater than your idol.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.
Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.
God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet.
There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
Pray, and let God worry.
God’s first creature, which was light.
The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.
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.
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.
God bless us every one! said Tiny Tim, the last of all.
Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.
God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn’t even need to exist.
My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.