988 private quotes tagged god

“It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.” — George Washington

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“Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.” — Martin Luther

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“I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.” — Steven Wright

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“I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.” — Michelangelo

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“Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.” — Alan Watts

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“Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.” — Albert Einstein

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“In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.” — Woodrow Wilson

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“God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.” — John Muir

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“God always takes the simplest way.” — Albert Einstein

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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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“All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.” — Martin Luther

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“But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?” — Robert Kennedy

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“God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“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.” — Aristotle

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“Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.” — John Wooden

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“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

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“Each one prays to God according to his own light.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“To you, I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.” — Woody Allen

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“God's first creature, which was light.” — Francis Bacon

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“I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.” — Walt Whitman

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“God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.” — Aldous Huxley

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