god quotes

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

— Arthur Young

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

— Andre Gide

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

— Andre Gide

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

— Andre Gide

“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.”

— Antoine de Saint Exupery

“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.”

— Sigmund Freud

“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?”

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Bernard Meltzer

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

— Clare Boothe Luce

“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.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. ”

— Abraham Lincoln

“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. ”

— Abraham Lincoln

“In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen. ”

— Stephen Hawking

“Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen. ”

— Stephen Hawking

“Leave the rest to the gods. ”

— Horace

“Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.”

— Euripides

“Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.”

— Euripides

“God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it. ”

— Euripides

“He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.”

— Euripides

“God's only excuse is that he does not exist. ”

— Stendhal

“Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.”

— Honore de Balzac

“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

“Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.”

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

“All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The gods help them that help themselves.”

— Aesop

“Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people. ”

— Lord Byron