Famous God Quotes



We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Albert Einstein

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God’s grandchild.

Dante Alighieri

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.

James K. Polk

There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.

D. H. Lawrence

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.

William Blake

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Voltaire

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Walt Whitman

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God’s dust is greater than your idol.

Rabindranath Tagore

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Benjamin Franklin

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

Thomas Jefferson

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Benjamin Franklin

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.

William James

God bless us every one! said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

Charles Dickens

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

Euripides

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!

Johannes Tauler

Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

Benjamin Franklin

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

William James

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

George Eliot

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

Quintilian

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.

Johannes Tauler

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.

George Washington

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

Franz Kafka

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

Mark Twain

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.

Martin Luther

Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.

Johannes Tauler

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

D. H. Lawrence

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.

Michelangelo

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Martin Luther

God doesn’t know things. He is things.

D. H. Lawrence

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

Voltaire

None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.

Torquato Tasso

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.

Daniel Webster

Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.

Miguel de Cervantes

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

Simone Weil

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Abraham Lincoln

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

Miguel de Cervantes

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Conscience is God present in man.

Victor Hugo

God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet.

William Shakespeare

Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties.

Victor Hugo

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

Swami Vivekananda

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

Emily Dickinson

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

Vincent van Gogh

God’s first creature, which was light.

Francis Bacon

Progress is the stride of God.

Victor Hugo

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

Rabindranath Tagore

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

John Donne

God’s little Blond Blessing we have long deemed you, and hope his so-called Will will not compel him to revoke you.

Emily Dickinson

On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.

Edith Stein

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

Voltaire

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

Friedrich Nietzsche

How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.

François Fénelon

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.

Henry Ward Beecher

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

Albert Einstein

Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

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

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

Otto von Bismarck

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

Albert Einstein

I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

D. H. Lawrence

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

Voltaire

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.

Friedrich Nietzsche

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

George Whitefield

The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.

Saadi

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.

Simone Weil

May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

Voltaire

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?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

George Whitefield

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