Quotes about god

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

— George Macdonald

Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

— Alexander Maclaren

Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

— Andre Mairaux

Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

— Joseph De Maistre

God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

— H. L. Mencken

When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

— F. B. Meyer

God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

— Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

— Charles De Montesquieu

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

— Mother Teresa

If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

— John Newton

I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. And thus I saw when we are all in peace and in love, we find no contrariness, nor no manner of letting through that contrariness which is now in us.

— Julian of Norwich

When men make gods, there is no God!

— Eugene O'Neill

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

— William Paley

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

— William Paley

Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

— Nikita Ivanovich Panin

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.

— Blaise Pascal

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

— Jean Paul

There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

— William M. Peck

Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants.

— William Penn

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

— Petronius

One on God's side is a majority.

— Wendell Phillips

Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

— Francis Picabia

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

— Pablo Picasso

You are within God. God is within you.

— Peace Pilgrim

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

— Plotinus

Man does what he can, God does what he will.

— Proverb

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

— Jewish Proverb

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

— Jewish Proverb

What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four.

— Russian Proverb

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

— Scottish Proverb

Every man for himself and God for us all.

— Spanish Proverb

God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

— Yiddish Proverb

If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent.

— Qur'an

The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

— Sri Ramakrishna

People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

— Swami Ramdas

Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

— Swami Ramdas

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

— Lynn Redgrave

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

— Jean Rostand

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

— Jean Rostand

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

— Saadi

Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

— Miguel De Cervantes

If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

— Salvatore Satta

You have to believe in gods to see them.

— Hopi Indian saying

While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

— Seneca

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

— George Bernard Shaw

I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

— Martin Sheen

God is the name we give our conscience.

— Nader Shureih

I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

— A. B. Simpson

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Fear God, yes, but don't be afraid of Him.

— J. A. Spender

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

— Gloria Steinem

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

— Lucy Stone

God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

— Joseph Stowell

It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument -- their intellect -- which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

— Galen Strawson

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

— Johannes Tauler

It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

— Henry David Thoreau

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

— Paul Tillich

If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

— A. W. Tozer

The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

— A. W. Tozer

An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

— A. W. Tozer

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

— A. W. Tozer

What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

— A. W. Tozer

People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

— Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree

To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

— George W. Truett

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

— Miguel De Unamuno

If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

— Source Unknown

Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

— Source Unknown

The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

— John Updike

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

— Virgil

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

— Empedocles

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

— Voltaire

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

— Voltaire

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

— Voltaire

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

— Alice Walker

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

— Daniel Webster

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

— Simone Weil

We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

— Simone Weil

In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

— Simone Weil

In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

— Walt Whitman

I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

— Elie Wiesel

God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

— Ted Williams

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

— Tennessee Williams

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

— Zig Ziglar

You need to find The Lord. He's around here somewhere.

— James Dye

If you kneel before God, you will stand before men.

— Leonard Ravenhill

God is a philosophical black hole – the point where reason breaks down.

— Kedar Joshi

At the heart of my metaphysic there is the ultimate question and at the heart of the universe there is the ultimate questioner.

— Kedar Joshi

There are two things I have known in life: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.

— John Newton

Change, because the kingdom of God is in hand

— Source Unknown

Thank God for fake people, so it makes it easier to spot the Real

— Authentic James

God is a cloud from which rain fell.

— Dejan Stojanovic

When following God, Zero we never find.

— Dejan Stojanovic

God is busy and has no time for you.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Long ago an uncalled rain fell and a called-upon God stayed equally distant.

— Dejan Stojanovic