Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
23 quotes 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 thoughts 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 views from George MacDonald
Let every man be true and every god a liar.
68 quotes from Samuel Butler
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
68 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 wisdom & wit 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 sayings from Samuel Butler
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
26 views 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 more sayings from Thomas Carlyle
Adoration is caring for God above all else.
4 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 other wisdom & wit from George Whitefield
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
12 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 sayings 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 views from Samuel Butler
God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
68 quotes from Samuel Butler
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
68 thoughts from Samuel Butler
God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
68 more wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler
God will forgive me. It's his job.
14 more wisdom & wit 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 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Joyce Cary
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
24 other views from Carl Sandburg
A thick skin is a gift from God.
4 wisdom & wit 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 other thoughts from E. Stanley Jones
Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God.
8 other 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 views from William Arthur Ward
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
67 other wisdom & wit from Francis Bacon
God helps those who help themselves.
96 other sayings from Benjamin Franklin
God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.
2 quotes from Johannes Tauler
God works wonders now and then Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
96 other thoughts 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 more 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 views from Benjamin Franklin
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
9 other views from Swami Vivekananda
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
11 thoughts from Meister Eckhart
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
45 more quotes from Thomas Fuller
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
16 other quotes 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 more sayings 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 quotes 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 wisdom & wit 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 thoughts from Ethel Watts Mumford
God gives some more than others because some accept more than others.
8 other wisdom & wit from Ernest Holmes
God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends.
3 wisdom & wit 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 thoughts from Meister Eckhart
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
9 views from Swami Vivekananda
God's first creature, which was light.
67 other quotes from Francis Bacon
He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
21 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 thoughts 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 quotes from Robert E. Lee
I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.
14 wisdom & wit from Loretta Young
If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.
40 more thoughts from William James
If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.
21 more quotes from Abu Bakr
In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.
2 more quotes 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 thoughts 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 quotes 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 more thoughts from Thomas Merton
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
45 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 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Henri Nouwen
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
19 sayings 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 more sayings from Christopher Love
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
67 more views 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 other views from Alan Watts
The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.
11 other quotes from Meister Eckhart
The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
56 quotes from Khalil Gibran
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
16 views 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 sayings from Alan Watts
The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.
12 more quotes from Thomas Merton
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
21 more quotes 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 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 quotes from Meister Eckhart
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
19 other thoughts from Anton Chekhov
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
16 views from Isaac Asimov
Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.
19 quotes from Elvis Presley
We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
11 thoughts from Robert E. Lee
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
37 other sayings from Edmund Burke
Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.
19 quotes 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 other wisdom & wit from Paul Cezanne
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
16 other thoughts from Alan Watts
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
11 views 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 more thoughts from Alan Watts
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 quotes 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 views from Charles Lindbergh
Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us.
31 wisdom & wit from Thomas Paine
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
13 sayings from Ansel Adams
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
73 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 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 quotes 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 views from Michel de Montaigne
The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
73 wisdom & wit from Victor Hugo
To love another person is to see the face of God.
73 quotes from Victor Hugo
To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
73 quotes from Victor Hugo
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
8 thoughts 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 wisdom & wit from Victor Hugo
God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
7 wisdom & wit 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 thoughts 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 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 thoughts 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 quotes from Abraham Lincoln
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
30 other views 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 sayings 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 other wisdom & wit 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 quotes from James Russell Lowell
A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
7 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 sayings from Ramakrishna
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
25 thoughts 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 thoughts 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 quotes 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 more quotes from James Russell Lowell
Conscience is God present in man.
73 other wisdom & wit from Victor Hugo
Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.
2 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 more quotes from Victor Hugo
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
13 more quotes from Ansel Adams
God created man, but I could do better.
33 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 other thoughts from Dwight L. Moody
God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
5 more 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 more sayings from Ramakrishna
God is in all men, but all men are not in God that is why we suffer.
10 other sayings from Ramakrishna
God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
8 quotes from Dwight L. Moody
God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
5 other wisdom & wit from Edna St. Vincent Millay
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
24 other quotes 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 more views 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 views from Susan B. Anthony
I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed.
7 wisdom & wit from Nikos Kazantzakis
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
105 other quotes from Albert Einstein
God always takes the simplest way.
105 other quotes from Albert Einstein
God does not play dice.
105 wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
18 more quotes from Joseph Campbell
God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
18 quotes from Jean Paul
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
105 quotes 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 views from Albert Einstein
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
105 quotes from Albert Einstein
I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
105 sayings from Albert Einstein
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
105 quotes from Albert Einstein
Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.
9 views from Lawrence Welk
People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.
7 other quotes from Pearl Bailey
We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
105 more sayings from Albert Einstein
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
105 sayings from Albert Einstein
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
17 more wisdom & wit 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 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Malcolm Muggeridge
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
9 views 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 views from Michelangelo
I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
23 other quotes from Vincent Van Gogh
I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.
4 more sayings from Jean Ingelow
I live and love in God's peculiar light.
16 other quotes from Michelangelo
I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
5 more quotes from Jim Valvano
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
16 more 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 other wisdom & wit from Johann Sebastian Bach
The best way to know God is to love many things.
23 other wisdom & wit from Vincent Van Gogh
We must return to nature and nature's god.
6 quotes from Luther Burbank
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
13 quotes 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 views from Charlotte Bronte
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
21 other quotes 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 sayings from Arnold J. Toynbee
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
81 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Thomas Jefferson
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just that his justice cannot sleep forever.
70 other sayings from Thomas Jefferson
If God is just, I tremble for my country.
70 other views from Thomas Jefferson
Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
81 thoughts from William Shakespeare
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
70 thoughts from Thomas Jefferson
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
7 quotes from Corrie Ten Boom
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
81 quotes from William Shakespeare
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
81 more thoughts from William Shakespeare
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
70 sayings from Thomas Jefferson
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
7 quotes from Alan Perlis
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
20 wisdom & wit from Anatole France
Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.
7 more quotes from Corrie Ten Boom
I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
11 other quotes from Charlie Chaplin
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
27 other quotes from Leonardo da Vinci
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 views from Soren Kierkegaard
God enters by a private door into every individual.
135 wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
22 thoughts 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 other views from Mikhail Bakunin
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
43 wisdom & wit from Alexander Pope
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
43 other quotes from Alexander Pope
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
43 more wisdom & wit 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 more 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 thoughts 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 sayings from Rabindranath Tagore
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
13 quotes from James M. Barrie
God help those who do not help themselves.
10 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 sayings from Niccolo Machiavelli
God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
135 more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
30 other wisdom & wit 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 other sayings from Christopher Morley
I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
30 other quotes from Walt Whitman
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
22 quotes 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 other thoughts from Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.
6 thoughts 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 quotes from Karl Barth
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
43 wisdom & wit from Alexander Pope
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
6 wisdom & wit from Karl Barth
Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
43 wisdom & wit 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 more quotes 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 thoughts 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 views from Golda Meir
We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.
52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
135 sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
9 quotes from Jiddu Krishnamurti
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
35 more wisdom & wit from Rabindranath Tagore
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
59 sayings from Elbert Hubbard
It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
57 quotes 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 quotes from Blaise Pascal
Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
58 thoughts 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 quotes from Mignon McLaughlin
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
6 other views 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 thoughts 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 other views from Henry Ward Beecher
The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
58 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
59 quotes from Elbert Hubbard
The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
57 more 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 thoughts 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 quotes from William Butler Yeats
Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
58 quotes 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 more sayings from Marquis de Sade
We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
58 other thoughts from Henry Ward Beecher
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
58 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
21 more sayings from Mignon McLaughlin
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
31 views from Helen Keller
They always win who side with God.
2 quotes from Frederick William Faber
Faith is different from proof the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
57 sayings from Blaise Pascal
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
58 other quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
58 thoughts 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 sayings 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 wisdom & wit from Henry Ward Beecher
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
59 quotes from Elbert Hubbard
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
57 other thoughts 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 other quotes 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 thoughts from George Orwell
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
26 more thoughts from Frank Lloyd Wright
I did my best, and God did the rest.
5 thoughts from Hattie McDaniel
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
8 thoughts from William Makepeace Thackeray
There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.
7 wisdom & wit from John Calvin
There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
45 other wisdom & wit from Aldous Huxley
When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
5 views 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 thoughts 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 thoughts from John Calvin
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
5 wisdom & wit from Oswald Chambers
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
12 other wisdom & wit from Franz Kafka
God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
117 quotes 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 more quotes from Ernest Hemingway
I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
115 more quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
117 views from Henry David Thoreau
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Trust in God - she will provide.
2 views from Emmeline Pankhurst
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
5 other 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 other quotes from Henry David Thoreau
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
50 views from Napoleon Bonaparte
In feature films the director is God in documentary films God is the director.
9 more quotes 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 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 thoughts from Jorge Luis Borges
God has two dwellings one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
4 views from Izaak Walton
God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.
2 wisdom & wit from Paul Dirac
I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.
24 more views from Lyndon B. Johnson
God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
3 other sayings from Alfred Jarry
God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
2 other quotes from Arthur Young
God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
21 quotes 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 other quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
21 more sayings 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 more sayings from H. L. Mencken
Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.
7 thoughts from Pope Paul VI
The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
60 sayings from H. L. Mencken
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
4 more quotes from Agatha Christie
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
103 views 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 quotes from Matthew Henry
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
15 more thoughts from William Penn
Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.
6 other wisdom & wit 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 more wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Jean Rostand
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
18 views from John Adams
Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.
13 sayings from Mahalia Jackson
The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
103 sayings 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 more thoughts from Friedrich Nietzsche
Woman was God's second mistake.
103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
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 more thoughts 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 sayings from Mahatma Gandhi
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
5 more quotes from Jim Elliot
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
17 quotes 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 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 sayings 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 views from Mahatma Gandhi
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
100 more quotes from Oscar Wilde
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
100 other sayings from Oscar Wilde
If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.
13 sayings 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 other thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
100 thoughts 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 views from Mahatma Gandhi
Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
100 thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
100 sayings from Mahatma Gandhi
Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
17 sayings from John Lennon
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
3 quotes from Jonathan Edwards
Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.
13 more 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 more 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 other sayings 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 wisdom & wit 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 sayings from Friedrich Nietzsche
Where love is, there God is also.
100 views from Mahatma Gandhi
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
103 views from Friedrich Nietzsche
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
8 quotes 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 thoughts from Jupiter Hammon
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
3 other thoughts from George Bancroft
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
9 quotes from Niels Bohr
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
5 more wisdom & wit from Lenny Bruce
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
103 thoughts from Friedrich Nietzsche
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
16 sayings 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 views from Jim Elliot
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
103 more thoughts from Friedrich Nietzsche
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 quotes from Martin Luther
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
25 other views 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 other views 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 views from Voltaire
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
98 views from Mark Twain
I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
25 quotes 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 more sayings 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 wisdom & wit from Voltaire
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
98 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 quotes from George S. Patton
Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
98 quotes from Mark Twain
Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
98 quotes from Mark Twain
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
98 quotes 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 more quotes 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 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 other sayings from Voltaire
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
22 more 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 quotes from Martin Luther
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
32 sayings from Martin Luther
Forgiveness is God's command.
32 thoughts from Martin Luther
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
78 quotes from Voltaire
God is not a dead equation!
14 more quotes from Muhammad Iqbal
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
78 wisdom & wit 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 thoughts 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 other views from Isaac Bashevis Singer
I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.
10 views from Billy Sunday
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
52 other sayings from George Eliot
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
78 other wisdom & wit from Voltaire
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
78 quotes from Voltaire
If there is no God, everything is permitted.
10 views from Fyodor Dostoevsky
If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.
78 views from Voltaire
If you don't do your part, don't blame God.
10 more 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 sayings from Lucy Maud Montgomery
Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
10 quotes from Isaac Bashevis Singer
Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
32 quotes from Martin Luther
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
32 sayings 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 sayings from Voltaire
Pray, and let God worry.
32 quotes from Martin Luther
The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
32 views 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 other views from George Eliot
The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
78 more sayings from Voltaire
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
78 more thoughts from Voltaire
To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
32 other views from Martin Luther
To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
10 sayings from Fyodor Dostoevsky
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
52 wisdom & wit from George Eliot
We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
52 other quotes from Albert Camus
Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.
32 other sayings 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 views from Jimi Hendrix
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
32 more sayings from William Blake