god quotes

“It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.”

“I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.”

“Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.”

“Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.”

“There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.”

“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.”

“When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'”

“Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.”

God quotes - I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.

“I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.”

“When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.”

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”

“God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”

“God is always on the side of the big battalions.”

“God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.”

“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”

“Heaven means to be one with God.”

“Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.”

God quotes - I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”

“Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.”

“God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.”

“The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.”

“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.”

“Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.”

“God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.”

“Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.”

“Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.”

“Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?”

“If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.”

“But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?”

“There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.”