God Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Woody Allen,
Martin H. Fischer,
Homer,
Mignon McLaughlin
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| As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree" - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. |
| - Woody Allen |
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| How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? |
| - Woody Allen |
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| If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank. |
| - Woody Allen |
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| The gods too are fond of a joke. |
| - Aristotle |
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| God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed. |
| - Saint Aurelius Augustine |
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| God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. |
| - Saint Aurelius Augustine |
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| Be God or let God. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Darkness cannot put out the Light. It can only make God brighter. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Don't question God, for He may reply: "If you're so anxious for answers, come up here." |
| - Unknown Author |
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| God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| God understands our prayers even when we can't find the words to say them. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| God's last name is not "Dammit." |
| - Unknown Author |
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| I believe in the sun even if it isn't shining. I believe in love even when I am alone. I believe in God even when He is silent. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| I just hope God does not get bored of dreaming me. |
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| If you are not as close to God as you used to be, who moved? |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Maybe the atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Most people wish to serve God - but only in an advisory capacity. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Some people talk about finding God - as if He could get lost. |
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| When we lose God, it is not God who is lost. |
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| You can tell the size of your God by looking at the size of your worry list. The longer your list, the smaller your God. |
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| You found God? If nobody claims him in thirty days, he's yours! |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Weave in faith and God will find the thread. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| People see God every day, they just don't recognize him. |
| - Pearl Bailey |
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| I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me. |
| - William Blake |
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| Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. |
| - Garth Brooks |
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| God is the perfect poet. |
| - Robert Browning |
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| Some people always sigh in thanking God. |
| - Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
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| God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. |
| - Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
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| Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. Really. |
| - Lenny Bruce |
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| Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. |
| - Leo Buscaglia |
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| To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it. |
| - Samuel Butler |
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| Fuck all the people who say, "God bless," and then don't bother to complete the sentence. Who they are, I haven't the slightest. But, if I were God, I would not honor such a request. |
| - George Carlin |
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| We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors. |
| - Malcolm de Chazal |
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| God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays. |
| - E.M. Cioran |
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| I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds. |
| - Quentin Crisp |
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| They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. |
| - Emily Dickinson |
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| At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice. |
| - Albert Einstein |
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| Before God we are all equally wise and equally foolish. |
| - Albert Einstein |
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| If there’s one thing I know it’s God does love a good joke. |
| - Hugh Elliott |
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| God enters by a private door into each individual. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Slow but sure moves the might of the gods. |
| - Euripides |
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| If you don't know what's meant by God, watch a forsythia branch or a lettuce leaf sprout. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| The self-appointed spokesmen for God incline to shout; He, Himself, speaks only in whispers. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| Your mind works very simply: you are either trying to find out what are God's laws in order to follow them; or you are trying to outsmart Him. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done. |
| - Harry Emerson Fosdick |
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| Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not wish to sign. |
| - Anatole France |
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| God is a verb, not a noun proper or improper. |
| - R. Buckminster Fuller |
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| I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God. |
| - Carl G. Jung |
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| The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf. |
| - Shakti Gawain |
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| But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things. |
| - Vincent van Gogh |
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| It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that when we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation - of loneliness, of poverty and misery, the end of all things, or their extreme - then rises in our mind the thought of God. |
| - Vincent van Gogh |
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| God may be said to be a quotational beast but he spells his maxims with feelings, not with letters and words. |
| - Terri Guillemets |
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| The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside. |
| - Homer |
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| The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men. |
| - Homer |
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| Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen. |
| - Homer |
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| God - the John Doe of philosophy and religion. |
| - Elbert Hubbard |
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| Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. |
| - Victor Hugo |
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| Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties. |
| - Victor Hugo |
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| I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour. |
| - William Ralph Inge |
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| 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. J. Sawyer |
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| It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him. |
| - Joseph Joubert |
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| We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter. |
| - Martin Luther, Jr. King |
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| What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive? |
| - Irv Kupcinet |
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| A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. |
| - C.S. Lewis |
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| 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." |
| - C.S. Lewis |
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| Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates. |
| - Stella Terrill Mann |
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| Don't look for God where He is needed most; if you didn't bring Him there, He isn't there. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| I've been hiding from God, and I'm appalled to find how easy it is. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| The young do not need God, and the old cannot find Him. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| We climb mountains because they are there, and worship God because He is not. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through. |
| - Edna St. Vincent Millay |
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| I had a thousand questions to ask God; but when I met him they all fled and didn't seem to matter. |
| - Christopher Morley |
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| Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. |
| - Malcolm Muggeridge |
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| You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God. |
| - Austin O'Malley |
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| Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue. |
| - Eugene O'Neill |
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| We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself. |
| - Joseph Chilton Pearce |
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| Once one has seen God, what is the remedy? |
| - Sylvia Plath |
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| Call on God, but row away from the rocks. |
| - Indian Proverb |
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| If God lived on earth, people would break his windows. |
| - Jewish Proverb |
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| I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. |
| - Jules Renard |
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| God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul. |
| - Jean Paul Richter |
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| When I saw others straining toward God, I did not understand it, for though I may have had him less than they did, there was no one blocking the way between him and me, and I could reach his heart easily. It is up to him, after all, to have us, our part consists of almost solely in letting him grasp us. |
| - Rainer Maria Rilke |
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| God, that dumping ground of our dreams. |
| - Jean Rostand |
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| God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home. |
| - Joseph Roux |
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| "I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all," Teddy said. "It was on a Sunday, I remember. My sister was a tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean. |
| - J.D. Salinger |
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| Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that "a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion." At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram... he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them. |
| - George Santayana |
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| Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed. |
| - Robert H. Schuller |
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| Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening. |
| - Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Life is God's novel. Let him write it. |
| - Isaac Bashevis Singer |
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| God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands. |
| - Rabindranath Tagore |
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| 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 |
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| When you knock, ask to see God - none of the servants. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of absurdities that have been attached to it. |
| - Leo Tolstoy |
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| God: The most popular scapegoat for our sins. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers. |
| - Brenda Ueland |
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| Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe in the God idea, not God himself. |
| - Miguel de Unamuno |
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| God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through. |
| - Paul Valéry |
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| God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. |
| - Voltaire |
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| I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker. |
| - Voltaire |
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| Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance. |
| - Alfred North Whitehead |
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| 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 |
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| Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well. |
| - John Greenleaf Whittier |
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| I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| By night, an atheist half believes in God. |
| - Edward Young |
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