God quotes

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There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What was God doing before the divine creation?

Stephen Hawking

‚God‘ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‚Deity‘ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

Isaac Newton

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

John Lennon

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.

Corrie Ten Boom

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

Blaise Pascal

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Francis Bacon

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Oscar Wilde

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Oscar Wilde

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

Joan of Arc

What I call my ‚self‘ now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

C. S. Lewis

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

Mahatma Gandhi

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

Franz Kafka

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

Bono

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

Woody Allen

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

King Solomon

As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.

Charles Spurgeon

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

Mahatma Gandhi

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Vincent Van Gogh

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Thomas Carlyle

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Martin Luther

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

William James

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

Ayrton Senna

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

Desmond Tutu

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

Plato

The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.

Paulo Coelho

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

Martin Luther

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Francis Bacon

Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

Alexander Pope

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

Henry Ford

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.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

Jean-Paul Sartre

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Tennessee Williams

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

Voltaire

Forgiveness is God’s command.

Martin Luther

God’s first creature, which was light.

Francis Bacon

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Isaac Asimov

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

Vincent Van Gogh

People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

Kurt Vonnegut

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

Joel Osteen

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Stephen Hawking

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

Voltaire

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Alexander Pope

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

Mark Twain

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

Mahatma Gandhi

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

Charles Spurgeon

There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.

C. S. Lewis

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

Charles Spurgeon

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

Russell M. Nelson

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

Chanakya

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

Martin Luther

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Charlie Chaplin

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

Helen Keller
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