Famous God Quotes - Famous Quotes about God
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
- John Calvin
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A key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is 'Snakes and Ladders' with greased rungs.
- Terry Pratchett
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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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Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.
- Miguel De Cervantes
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
- Andre Gide
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Arthur hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realised there was a contradiction there and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
- Douglas Adams
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As God once said, and I think rightly...
- Bernard Law Montgomery
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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
- C. S. Lewis
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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
- Anatole France
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Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
- Maria Mitchell
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Fear God and work hard.
- David Livingstone
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God does arithmetic.
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
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God don't make no mistakes. That's how He got to be God. - Archie Bunker
- Carroll O'Connor
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God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.
- Andre Weil
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God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
- Euripides
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God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire
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God is good to the Irish, but no one else is; not even the Irish
- Anonymous
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God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.
- Plutarch
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Has God forgotten all I have done for Him?
- Louis XIV
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He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
- Euripides
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How can I believe in God when only last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
- Woody Allen
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How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
- Thomas Aquinas
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I always said God was against art and I still believe it.
- Edward Elgar
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
- C. S. Lewis
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I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.
- Jean Ingelow
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I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
- Georges Duhamel
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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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I sat down at the piano and my hands began to browse over the keys. Then something happened. I felt as though I could reach out and touch God. I found myself playing a melody, one I'd never heard or played before, and words came into my head -- they just seemed to fall into place...
- Thomas A. Dorsey
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I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.
- David Livingstone
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments—we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
- Sir Malcolm Bradbury
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If God has cable, we are the 24-hour doofus network.
- Will Durst
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If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
- 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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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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If you want to make God laugh, tell him your future plans.
- Woody Allen
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In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.
- Bill Gates
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In the first place God made idiots; that was for practice; then he made school boards.
- Mark Twain
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In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
- Erich Fromm
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Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.
- Anne Bradstreet
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It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
- Abraham Lincoln
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It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.
- Arthur C. Clarke
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It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
- Plutarch
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Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
- Bill Gates
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Less is more. God is in the details.
- Mies van der Rohe
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Man - a figment of God's imagination.
- Mark Twain
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Man is a greater miracle than any god he ever invented.
- Rod Steiger
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Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
- Galileo Galilei
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Moreover, we are showing a dismaying tendency to recast God in Man's image.
- James L. Buckley
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My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tell you.
- Benjamin Jowett
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My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.
- Andrew Young
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Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.
- Woody Allen
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Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.
- Jean de La Bruyere
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Only God can make a truly random selection.
- Levy's Ninth Law
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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.
- Julian Huxley
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Philosophies change by the day while God never changes, simply because, being perfect, He does not have to change!
- Jimmy Swaggart
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Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
- Franz Werfel
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Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.
- Lionel Hampton
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The best way to know God is to love many things.
- Vincent Van Gogh
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The course of Nature is the art of God.
- Edward Young
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle
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The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.
- Joseph Marie de Maistre
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The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas
- Alfred Victor Vigny
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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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There are two things I have learned: There is a God. And I'm not Him.
- Anonymous
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There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
- Agatha Christie
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
- Isaac Asimov
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We don't call a man mad who believes that he eats God, but we do the one who says he is Jesus Christ
- Claude Adrien Helvetius
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We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
- Tennessee Williams
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Where it all will end, knows God.
- Wolcott Gibbs
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Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.
- Erik Satie
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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
- Barbara Bush
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