God Quotes

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The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.

John Philpot Curran

Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body.

As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life, and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived — a Defensive war I think a righteous war to Defend my life & property & that of my family, in my own opinion, is right & justifiable in the sight of God.
An offensive war, I believe to be wrong and would therefore have nothing to do with it, having no right to meddle with another man's property, his ox or his ass, his man servant or his maid servant or anything that is his. Neither does he have a right to meddle with anything that is mine, if he does I have a right to defend it by force.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty—as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

It is intended that we shall accomplish all, through law, that we can accomplish for ourselves. God gives every bird its food, but does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth? We have our answer in the fertile soil which spreads over the temperate regions of the globe. The glacier was God's great plough.

Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

R. G. Collingwood

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr

At times I have long conversations with God. Sometimes I ask questions. I admit that there are also times when I let out my frustrations, fears, and anxieties in less than honorable ways. No matter what I pray about or how I pray about it, the result I always get is comfort.

Once more, never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit,
But God to man doth speak in solitude.

John Stuart Blackie

Oh many a peer of England brews
Livelier liquor than the Muse,
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink
For fellows whom it hurts to think.

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency... Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

Harold Macmillan

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Oswald Chambers

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.

If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. . . . What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.

Brennan Manning

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.

Anna Julia Cooper

Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.

James Martineau

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.