God Quotes

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

Anne Lamott

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

Sophocles

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

Samuel Butler

And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

James Elroy Flecker

Since open-mindedness and experimentation are supposed to be the indispensable attributes of our 'scientific' civilization, it seems strange that so many scientists are reluctant to try out personally the hypothesis that God came first and man afterward. They prefer to believe that man is the chance product of evolution; that God, the Creator, does not exist. I can only report that I have experimented with both concepts and that, in my case, the God concept has proved to be a better basis for living than the man-centered one. Nevertheless, I would be the first to defend your right to think as you will. I simply ask this question: in your own life, have you ever really tried to think and act as though there might be a God? Have you experimented?

Bill Wilson, Letter, 1950

How would man exist if God did not need him, and how would you exist? You need God in order to be, and God needs you

Martin Buber

The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.

Charles L. Allen

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.

H. L. Mencken

Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.

Imelda Marcos

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.

John B. S. Haldane

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 don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

Jupiter Hammon

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Stephen Hawking

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Jean Rostand

The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

Sigmund Freud

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Billy Graham

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

David Wilkerson

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

George Washington Carver