Quotes
Quotes about God
Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.
At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental.
The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.
Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.
Alec Issigonis (we refuse to use the plutocratic terms 'sir' or 'doctor') said a camel is a horse designed by committee. If it was God's committee for an animal adapted to communities without water.. it was a divine consensus.
I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; because in it I recognize the union and culmination of my own. To me it seems as if when God conceived the world, that was Poetry; He formed it, and that was Sculpture; He colored it, and that was Painting; He peopled it with living beings, and that was the grand, divine, eternal Drama.
Any one can count the seeds in an apple.. Only God can count the apples in a seed.
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune. [Lat., Ecce spectaculum dignum, ad quod respiciat intentus operi suo Deus. Ecce par Deo dignum, vir fortis cum mala fortuna compositus.]
A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the gods might look down with pleasure.
What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.
For the love of God, folks, don't do this at home.
Kindness and wisdom is the pathway leading to GOD'S LOVE! -Clara.
Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, "I can't.".
I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.
Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate. [Lat., Crede mihi, miseris coelestia numina parcunt; Nec semper laesos, et sine fine, premunt.]
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, From that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!
I know of no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.
I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
God gives nuts to those with no teeth. -Arabic proverb.
