Quotes
Quotes about God
The gods too are fond of a joke.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
They said they were anhungry; sighed forth proverbs-- That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat, That meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not Corn for the rich men only. With these shreds They vented their complainings, which being answered And a petition granted them, a strange one, To break the heart of generosity, And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon, Shouting their emulation.
There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By his permissive will, through heav'n and earth.
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud, It is but for a time; I press God's lamp Close to my breast; its splendor soon or late Will pierce the gloom; I shall emerge one day.
Thus God's children are immorall whiles their Father hath anything for them to do on earth.
If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.
All men think all men mortal, but themselves. If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man for himself and God for us all.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness--That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive to these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such Principles and and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. . . .
The whole trouble is that we won't let God help us.
When God's green grows it's rarely in rows Awry the rye rises .. unruly the rose.
Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.
Our life's a flying shadow, God the pole, The needle pointing to Him is our soul.
God in making man intended by him to reduce all His Works back again to Himself.
Lay ye down the golden chain From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links Both Goddesses and Gods.
Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole; But what were that intrinsic virtue worth, Suppose some fellow, with more zeal than knowledge, Fresh from St. Andrew's College, Should nail the conscious needle to the north?
O God, keep me innocent; make others great! [Fr., O mon Dieu, conserve-moi innocente, donne la grandeur aux autres.]
For those whom God to ruin has designed He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
God comes to the hungry in the form of food.
