The gods too are fond of a joke.
Aristotle
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Chuck Palahniuk
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard
Unless I am convinced by proofs from Scriptures or by plain and clear reasons and arguments, I can and will not retract, for it is neither safe nor wise to do anything against conscience. Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.
Martin Luther King Jr.
It is pleasing to God whenever you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Pray, and let God worry.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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
What if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.
Matt Groening
All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, where dice are thrown, and roulette wheels spin on every occasion.
Stephen Hawking
The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past.
Samuel Butler
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Samuel Butler
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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.
Samuel Butler
How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.
Robert J. Sawyer
Whoever possesses God in their being, has him in a divine manner, and he shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God's image that they see.
Meister Eckhart
No-one knows what the soul is.. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion.
Meister Eckhart
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
Garrison Keillor
God is the perfect poet, / Who in his person acts his own creations.
Robert Browning
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
Blaise Pascal
God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.
Publilius Syrus
Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.
Flavius Josephus
I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I'm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.
Real Live Preacher
Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.
Real Live Preacher
The Word of God is the universal and invisible Light, cognizable by the senses, that emits its blaze in the Sun, Moon, Planets, and other Stars.
Albert Pike
EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. We're looking for something, though we're not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.
Real Live Preacher
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein
My sense of God is my sense of wonder about the Universe.
Albert Einstein
The gaurdian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.
Jean Paul Richter
Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.
Francis Cardinal Spellman
When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.
Real Live Preacher
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!
Henry David Thoreau
The sense of spiritual relief which comes from rejecting the idea of God as a supernatural being is enormous.
Julian Sorrell Huxley
If God had intended for breasts to be seen, He wouldn't have created large woolen pullovers.
Tracey Ullman
Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.
Benedict Spinoza
God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the god dam rules.
Maria Callas
Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
Sir Philip Sidney
Once you accept the existence of God-however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him-then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.
Morris West
When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.
The Work of the Chariot
God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
Abdul Kalam
When faced with a mountain, I will not quit! I will keep striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine, with God's help.
Robert Half
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
Jean Paul Sartre
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
Emily Dickinson
They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.
Graham Greene
I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.
Raymond Chandler
Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?
Anna Quindlen
One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.
Jean Rostand
I could prove God statistically.
George H. Gallup
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
Marquis De Sade
God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
Georges Duhamel
The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.
Shakti Gawain
If you have anything to tell me of importance, for God's sake begin at the end.
Sara Jeannette Duncan
It is not my ability, but my response to God's ability, that counts.
Corrie Ten Boom
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
Richard Dawkins
It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.
Oswald Chambers
If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might also seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.
John Tillotson
Next to God, we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth having.
Christian Nevell Bovee
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.
J. B. S. Haldane
God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of the players, (ie everybody), to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.
Neil Gaiman
If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.
Arthur Koestler
I absolutely believe my talent is God-given. I ask God for a lot, but I also thank him. I'm a very demanding believer.
Hubert De Givenchy
There, but for the grace of God, goes God.
Herman J. Mankiewicz
Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.
John Wesley
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
Paul Valery
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
C.S. Lewis
I have found there are three stages to every great work of God: first it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done.
J. Hudson Taylor
The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the ravings of insanity, superstition gone to see! I want no part of such a God.
Luther Burbank
When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.
Caspian Tredwell Owen
As sure as God puts His children in the furnace he will be in the furnace with them.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Perhaps God and the Devil danced hand in hand around every single electron.
Patricia Highsmith
God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.
Irving Layton
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
J. G. Holland
He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find him the rest of the day.
John Bunyan
We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.
W. Somerset Maugham
And I'm no expert on the word I can't qoute you chapter and verse But I've heard you love the worst ones too And I'm the proof.
Bobby Pinson
If God dwells inside us like some people say, I sure hope He likes enchiladas, because that's what He's getting.
Jack Handy
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.
John Calvin
When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.
Jane Wagner
Though troubles assail And dangers affright, Though friends should all fail And foes all unite; Yet one thing secures us, Whatever betide, The scripture assures us, The Lord will provide.
John Newton
If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet.
Ninon de Lenclos
God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
Jeremy Taylor
May those who love us, love us; and those who don't love us, may God turn their hearts; and if He doesn't turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles so we'll know them by their limping.
Irish Blessings
I took a day to search for God, And found Him not; but as I trod, By rocky ledge, through woods untamed, Just where one scarlet lily flamed, I saw His footprint in the sod.
William Bliss Carman
As set forth by theologians, the idea of "God" is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.
Johann Most
Man does not bring to God's altar the stuff of nature in itself, in its initial structure, but something he has made and molded out of nature for the nourishment and the inspiration of men.
Wilford O. Cross
Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.
Daniel Defoe
AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
Jerry Falwell
Act, and God will act.
Joan of Arc
I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
Walt Whitman
Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.
George Washington Carver
God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
Alfred Jarry
I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.
James Lileks
In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
Frederick Buechner
Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.
Matthias
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we do not need to worship God six days in the week why do we need to worship him on the seventh?
Lemuel K. Washburn
If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.
Angelina Grimke
Pray often; for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.
John Bunyan
Through it all there is order and symmetry and a vision of what the completed edifice will be; a vision of a perfect structure, dedicated wholly to the honor and glory of a great, good and loving God.
Margaret Wyvill Ecclesine
People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the Great Unseen, not what I cause Myself to be in any particular moment. In a sense, I am what I am not. It is from the Am-notness that I come, and to it I always return.
Neale Donald Walsch
We want God to come and save us. But he won't. God doesn't stop levees from failing, he doesn't stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesn't stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.
Waiter Rant
I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask.
Minnie Driver
God visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.
French Proverb
God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.
Thomas Brooks
To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
Florence Nightingale
God did not create hurry.
Finnish Proverb
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Brenda Ueland
A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?
W. Somerset Maugham
Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?
Lily Tomlin
God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity.
Christina Of Sweden
He, who does not believe that God wants this bit of sand to lie in this particular place, does not believe at all.
Hasidic Proverb
As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
Abdul Kalam
Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.
John Piper
God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
Luis Bunuel
I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Young man, if God had wanted you to see me that way, he would have put your eyes in your bellybutton.
Lillian Gish
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
Jewish Proverb
God must become an activity in our consciousness.
Joel S. Goldsmith
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
Abraham Lincoln
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
Abraham Lincoln
God has a sense of humor. If you don't believe me, tomorrow go to wal-mart and just look at people.
Carlos Mencia
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Mark Twain
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
Sophy Burnham
May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.
General George S. Patton
Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.
Philip James Bailey
Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts: and no one to thank.
Christina G. Rossetti
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
Nelson Rockefeller
My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.
Benjamin Jowett
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Hugh Elliott
Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our callings that we may sleep in Thy peace and wake in Thy glory.
John Donne
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
William Cowper
I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
William Blake
If God has spoken, why is not the universe convinced?
Paul henri Thiry
God is usually on the side of big squadrons and against little ones.
Comte Debussy rabutin
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
Indian Proverb
We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!
Anna Quindlen
I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.
Edwin A. Robinson
God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.
Ernest Renan
When men make gods, there is no God.
Eugene O'neill
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