God Quotes

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

Jean Paul

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

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.

Oksana Baiul

Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.

Richard H. Tawney

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

Some would deny any legitimate use of the word God because it has been misused so much. Certainly it is the most burdened of all human words. Precisely for that reason it is the most imperishable and unavoidable. And how much weight has all erroneous talk about God's nature and works (although there never has been nor can be any such talk that is not erroneous) compared with the one truth that all men who have addressed God really meant him? For whoever pronounces the word God and really means Thou, addresses, no matter what his delusion, the true Thou of his life that cannot be restricted by any other and to whom he stands in a relationship that includes all others.

Martin Buber, I and Thou, 1923

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

Rabindranath Tagore

Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

Samuel Butler

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Andre Breton

God's dice always have a lucky roll.

Sophocles

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, 'Oh God, I've got to do this today.'

Richard Branson

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Blaise Pascal

Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.

Corrie Ten Boom

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. 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 blindfolded 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

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

Paul Tillich

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Anita Brookner