God Quotes - Page 33

• Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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• In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Graduation

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.26, St. Martin's Press

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• God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

  Voltaire

  Military, War, Sides

  "Great Thinkers Great Thoughts: One Thought Can Change Your World". Book published by Tejgyan Global Foundation, 2015.

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

  Voltaire

  Christian, Believe, Belief

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Appreciation

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence

  Bertrand Russell

  Death, Spiritual, Atheist

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.554, Psychology Press

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• It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Atheist, Lying

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.43, Princeton University Press

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• God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience.

  Douglas Adams

  Finals, Messages, Apologizing

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• You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?

  Paulo Coelho

  Attitude, Views, Serious Illness

  "Veronika Decides to Die". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1998.

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• God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'.

  Dan Brown

  Prayer, Answers, Sometimes

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• In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Bible, Religious, Book

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.542, Wildside Press LLC

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• When it comes to God's existence, I'm not an atheist and I'm not agnostic. I'm an acrostic. The whole thing puzzles me.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Atheist, Humor

  George Carlin (2004). “When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, Hyperion

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• A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Attitude, Men

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• Man proposes, and God disposes.

  Ludovico Ariosto

  Men, Propose

  "Orlando Furioso". Poem by Ludovico Ariosto. Canto XLVI, stanza 35, 1532.

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• God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.

  Herbert Beerbohm Tree

  Men, Trying, May

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• How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.

  Augustus William Hare

  World, Certain, Idle

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.169

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• If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof.

  George Harrison

  Believe, Want, Proof

  "Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead". Book by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, 1970.

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• God and I have built an immense fire together. We keep each other happy and warm.

  Hafez

  Fire, Together, Built

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• God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.

  Plutarch

  Men, Brave, Coward

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.178

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• I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Thinking, Names, Arlington

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• There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind, and its infinite manifestation, for God is All in All. Spirit is immortal Truth; Matter is mortal error

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Errors, Mind, Substance

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.558, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The divine essence itself is love and wisdom.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Essence, Glory, Divine

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1859). “Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by E. Swedenborg”, p.10

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• Krishna was conceived in the womb of Devaki mysteriously as the sun setting in the West imparts his rays to the rising moon in the East.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Moon, West, Sun

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• A day of grace is yet held out to us. Both North and South have been guilty before God; and the Christian Church has a heavy account to answer. Not by combining together, to protest injustice and cruelty, and making a common capital of sin, is this Union to be saved-but by repentance, justice and mercy; for, not surer is the eternal law by which the millstone sinks in the ocean, than that stronger law, by which injustice and cruelty shall bring on nations the wrath of Almighty God.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Christian, Ocean, Wrath

  "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Final lines, www.gutenberg.org. 1852.

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• When men make gods, there is no God!

  Eugene O'Neill

  Men, There Is No God

  1927 Lazarus. Lazarus Laughed, act 2, sc.2.

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