god quotes

“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.”

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Heaven means to be one with God.”

— Confucius

“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.”

— Confucius

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

— Thomas Jefferson

“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.”

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Arthur Young

“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 quotes

“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.”

“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.”

“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. ”

“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. ”

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

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

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

“Leave the rest to the gods. ”

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

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

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

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