God quotes

God may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God’s language – it’s better, it’s finer, it’s language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

God is everywhere.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.