God Quotes

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.

Woodrow Wilson

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

John Lennon

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Ambrose Bierce

God's first creature, which was light.

Francis Bacon

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Khalil Gibran

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

Voltaire

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

Desmond Tutu

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Thomas Paine

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

Victor Hugo

Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.

Jim Elliot

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

Matthew Henry

God does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.

Henri Nouwen

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Elbert Hubbard

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Henry David Thoreau

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Thomas Jefferson

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Vincent Van Gogh

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Thomas Jefferson

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

Woody Allen

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