A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
Mahatma GandhiGod made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
Mark TwainI would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
Friedrich NietzscheGod judged it better to bring good out of evil, than to suffer no evil to exist.
Saint AugustineReputation is what men and women think of us, character is what God and angels know of us.
Thomas PaineAll gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings and so give them the power to pull ours.
Aldous HuxleyIf we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
Ronald ReaganGain and loss, birth and death are in the hands of God.
Sai BabaNeither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise, to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
AeschylusZen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
Alan WattsHave the Love of God filling and thrilling your heart, then you cannot hate anyone.
Sai BabaIsn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
Desmond TutuGod and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
Samuel ButlerThat we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
Blaise PascalGod's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
Desmond TutuMen would be angels, angels would be gods.
Alexander PopeThe God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
Martin LutherGod made the country and man made the town.
William CowperThe pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
William BlakeGod intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want.
C. S. LewisYou may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.
C. S. LewisJesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re crazy and you’re blasphemous, and they’ll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, ‘My goodness, I’ve just discovered that I’m God,’ they’ll laugh and say, ‘Oh, congratulations, at last you found out.
Alan WattsA dish fit for the gods.
William ShakespeareI am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him.
Rabindranath TagoreThe gods too are fond of a joke.
AristotleIt is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.
Mother TeresaWe cannot condemn or judge or pass words that will hurt people. We don't know in what way God is appearing to that soul and what God is drawing that soul to; therefore, who are we to condemn anybody?
Mother TeresaGod 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 HuxleyGod's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.
Billy GrahamI am thankful of course, for the prize, and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
Isaac Bashevis SingerGod wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money to fulfill the destiny. He has laid out for us.
Joel OsteenOur society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.
Billy GrahamHe that takes truth for his guide and duty for his end may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
Blaise PascalThere are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Mahatma GandhiI will far rather see the race of man extinct, than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
Mahatma GandhiBeauty is the gift of God.
AristotleMark what a generosity and courage a dog will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man who, to him, is instead of a God
Francis BaconCan a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
C. S. LewisBut men must know that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on
Francis BaconOur humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
Francis BaconThe knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I we are one in knowledge.
Meister EckhartCharity 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-ExuperyThe Divine pervades everything in the Universe. This may not be understood by everyone. Some may not agree that the Divine is Omnipresent. But whether they accept this fact or not the truth is evidence of the presence of God can be found wherever one turns.
Sai BabaGod is the life-breath of every soul.
Sai BabaFor where God built a church there the Devil would also build a chapel.
Martin LutherThe finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God so our justice before divine justice.
Blaise PascalFlowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward BeecherBelieve that all hearts are motivated by the one and Only God - that all faiths glorify the One and the Only God, that all names in all languages and all Forms men can conceive denote the One and Only God.
Sai BabaThe God of death does not give notice of His arrival to take hold of you. He is not like the photographer who says I am clicking are you ready?
Sai BabaLet every man be true and every god a liar.
Samuel ButlerCharity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
Simone WeilWhat a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
Saint Teresa of AvilaThe moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage everything that binds vanishes and I am free.
Swami VivekanandaTo us also through every star through every blade of grass is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
Thomas CarlyleCommunism has decided against God against Christ against the Bible and against all religion.
Billy GrahamGod is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
Friedrich NietzscheA subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Friedrich NietzscheRisk is a part of God's game alike for men and nations.
Warren BuffettThe Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
Alfred Lord TennysonWhoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert EinsteinLight God's eldest daughter is a principal beauty in a building.
Thomas FullerEmploy yourself usefully. Be like a trustee holding on trust on behalf of God for the purpose which He likes and approves.
Sai BabaThat God does not exist I cannot deny That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
Jean-Paul SartreIf ye despise the human race and mortal arms yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.
VirgilI have never made but one prayer to God a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.
VoltaireLife is God's novel. Let him write it.
Isaac Bashevis SingerJust 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 CiceroPERFORM all acts with as much love as you would offer God. In Truth you eat for the satisfaction of the I in you and dress up to please the self-same I . The husband loves his wife for the sake of the I . And who is this I that is persistently inherent in everyone? It is God Himself.
Sai BabaOut of chaos God made a world and out of high passions comes a people.
Lord ByronGod is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaAll God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
Meister EckhartTo achieve release man kneels before a million Gods in frantic pain. If he but blasts the ego within the Goal is reached he is freed indeed!
Sai BabaGod is the mother and father of the world. Our parents are the mother and father of this body.
Sai BabaIt is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.
Joseph JoubertIt is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.
Simone WeilGod does not deny anyone, it is only you who deny God. When the gift is proffered you have to do only one little act so that you may earn it. You have to extend your hand to receive it.
Sai BabaA bubble is on water and merges in water. Man is born in God and merges in God.
Sai BabaI have held many things in my hands and I have lost them all, but whatever I have placed in God's hands that I still possess.
Martin LutherI cannot do anything without God Sai Baba
Pray to God and recite His Name or meditate on His Glory for some fixed period of time everyday, you will find it amply rewarding.
Sai BabaThe voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.
William BlakeThe religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
Alan WattsEvery woman and every man is the mother of God when we carry Jesus in our heart and body through a divine love and a pure sincere conscience. We give birth to Him through a holy activity which must shine as an example before others.
Francis of AssisiKeep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.
Joel OsteenTalent can be developed gift is God-given. But artists have both.
Carroll O'ConnorTo surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature and it remains premature today
Isaac AsimovI am still far from being what I want to be but with God's help I shall succeed.
Vincent Van GoghThe goal is to live with godlike composure on the full rush of energy like Dionysus riding the leopard without being torn to pieces.
Joseph CampbellWithout God life is like a school without a teacher. It is a wire with no current passing through it, it is a body with no soul.
Sai BabaGod is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
Joseph CampbellYou may call God love you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
Meister EckhartGod is for those who are not for themselves.
Sai BabaWe can't form our children on our own concepts, we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThis is a human form in which every Divine Entity every Divine Principle that is to say all the names and forms ascribed by man to God are manifest.
Sai BabaBut God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.
Desmond TutuWe make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next door neighbour.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept and you have to take it seriously.
Stephen KingLo! The poor Indian whose untutored mind sees God in clouds or hears him in the wind.
Alexander PopeHave faith in God and in the correctness of moral living. Then you can have peace and joy whatever may be the fare that fortune offers you.
Sai BabaThe experience of God or in any case the possibility of experiencing God is innate.
Alice WalkerIf God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
Meister EckhartAll the twenty-four hours you should be in the remembrance of God.
Sai BabaGod wears Truth the good seek Truth and the bad are rescued by Truth, Truth liberates, Truth is power, Truth is freedom. It is the lamp that illuminates the heart and dispels doubt and darkness.
Sai BabaI can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting but I cannot suffering as I am do without something which is greater than I am which is my life the power to create.
Vincent Van GoghGod made me and broke the mold.
Jean-Jacques RousseauIn fact service is the first step along the spiritual path for service to man is service to God.
Sai BabaOnce we surrender our mind to GOD completely HE will take care of us in every way.
Sai BabaThank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.
Joan RiversGOD is ONE without a second.
Sai BabaGod alone is the giver of life the guardian of life and the goal of life.
Sai BabaGOD gave you the time space cause material idea skill chance and fortune. Why should you feel as if you are the doer?
Sai BabaWhat is offered to GOD is totally free from all defects and imperfections.
Sai BabaThere is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen which I fervently pray God to avert from that date I view our liberty gone.
Andrew JacksonA man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
C. S. LewisThere are two kinds of people: those who say to God "Thy will be done " and those to whom God says "All right, then have it your way."
C. S. LewisYou may make some mistakes-but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.
Joel OsteenOur Lord has written the promise of resurrection not in books alone but in every leaf in springtime.
Martin LutherHuman society minus God is equal to a forest of brutes.
Sai BabaHow can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
Thomas AquinasComputers are like Old Testament gods, lots of rules and no mercy.
Joseph CampbellThe eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.
Meister EckhartOceans are many but Water is one,Religions are many but God is one,
Sai BabaIf it turns out that there is a God I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
Woody AllenAny God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.
Alice WalkerThe day of the absolute is over and we're in for the strange gods once more.
David Herbert LawrenceSpeak the truth, do not yield to anger, give if thou art asked for little, by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
ConfuciusIn my country of South Africa we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings children of the same God by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
Desmond TutuI shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
Albert EinsteinThere cannot be a God because if there were one I could not believe that I was not He.
Friedrich NietzscheAnd so there is no God, but has been in the loins of past gods.
Samuel ButlerI am in love - and my God it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already you are wasting your life.
David Herbert LawrenceIn the Bible we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh an act of grace freely given.
Desmond TutuAs flies to wanton boys are we to the gods, they kill us for their sport.
William ShakespeareTo live without evil belongs only to the gods.
SophoclesWorry - a God invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse, it takes away the appetite and turns the hair gray.
Benjamin DisraeliThere is a god within us.
OvidWhen 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."
Stephen KingI try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.
Joel OsteenThe body will shine if the character is fine, service of man and worship of God will preserve its charm.
Sai BabaOne person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books but no one can get anything out of life without God.
Meister EckhartGod flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking communicating and writing back 50 years.
Robert H. SchullerGod gives everything, whatever we get is His grace. You have no right to judge whether what you get is good or bad.
Sai BabaBecause one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
Victor HugoI think its rather peculiar. It's not in keeping with our founding documents our founding vision. But I'd guess you'd have to ask the Obama administration why they purged all this language from their platform. There sure is a lot of mention of government so I guess I would put the onus on them to answer why they did all these purges of God.
Paul RyanDevelop the feeling of brotherhood of man and fatherhood of God.
Sai BabaI am also the target of such comments people do not understand the way of God. How can they know why particular event takes place at a particular time in a particular manner? He alone can know. But people try to sit in judgment and talk ill when for example one dies of illness at this place how can anyone escape death?
Sai BabaOur ignorance means we must follow the course prescribed by Pascal in his famous wager about the existence of God. Since he didn't know the answer his personal gain/loss ratio dictated an affirmative conclusion.
Warren BuffettGod moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea and rides upon the storm.
William CowperTo you I'm an atheist, to God I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Woody AllenThe sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.
Jim ElliotBehold a worthy sight to which the God turning his attention to his own work may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing worthy of a God a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWhenever a man makes haste God too hastens with him.
AeschylusBy reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure a cooler blue the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
Thomas MertonYou damned spirits! You can only do what the hand of God allows you to do
Francis of AssisiBut at any rate the point is that God is what nobody admits to being and everybody really is.
Alan WattsGod how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity, more like senility than anything.
David Herbert LawrenceHappiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
EuripidesGod pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
Henry Ward BeecherThe chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
H. L. MenckenGod is in everyone. God is in you and you are God. Strengthen this fundamental truth. When you propagate this truth that is the real service. It is the service that will take you to closer proximity a boat. In this ocean of life take the help of this boat and gain the proximity.
Sai BabaGod has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us on this side of the grave.
Francis BaconGreat thoughts and a pure heart that is what we should ask from God.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEvery perfect life is a parable invented by God.
Simone WeilOne atom of the plane where He functions would shatter the world.
ConfuciusWhat's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.
Alanis MorissetteHere is God's purpose - for God to me it seems is a verb not a noun proper or improper.
R. Buckminster FullerThe Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.
William BlakeGod appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
Henry Ward BeecherHow can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
Woody AllenIt were better to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion as is unworthy of him.
Francis BaconBeautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul, it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
Martin LutherI believe firmly in God's control in life.
Charles R. SwindollYou will see in the due course that even the blind declare Swami is God.
Sai BabaGod creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes to be sure but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
Soren KierkegaardThe confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own and God willingly favors such a confidence.
Michel de MontaigneBelieve that God is everywhere at all times and derive strength comfort and joy by singing His glory in His presence.
Sai BabaArt is a collaboration between God and the artist and the less the artist does the better.
Andre GideI believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long even God.
Chuck PalahniukIt is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThose who aspire to become devotees of God must give up meat liquor and smoking.
Sai BabaTwo prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
Simone WeilI had rather believe all the fables in the Legend and the Talmud and the Alcoran than that this universal frame is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought miracle to convince atheism because his ordinary works convince it. It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Francis BaconOnly one God is present in everyone. Never follow the differences basing on the differences of the body. There is no chance or scope for conflict.
Sai BabaOur founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.
Paul RyanI am an atheist out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.
Isaac AsimovGod's finger touched him and he slept.
Alfred Lord TennysonThe Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
David Herbert LawrenceYeah I know I'm ugly... I said to a bartender 'Make me a zombie.' He said 'God beat me to it.'
Rodney DangerfieldFor this is the mark of a wise and upright man not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
AeschylusMan is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
Andre GideIt is the height of foolishness to loose faith in God when someone you care for dies. The sentence that he earned is over and he is released.
Sai BabaWhen you retire for the night offer grateful homage to God for being with you all day long.
Sai BabaGod has no preferences and prejudices, His is but reaction reflection and resound.
Sai BabaLet us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair, the rest is in the hands of God.
George WashingtonFancy and Fantasy rule the mind of man. You desire one thing in the morning, at noon you change over to something else. That desire will not persist until evening. If your desire is fulfilled you praise God and parade your devotion. But if it does not prevail you throw God overboard and parade your disbelief!
Sai BabaFor Christians who believe they are created in the image of God it is the Godhead diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God which we and all creation reflect.
Desmond TutuI don't mind saying you know that I don't take a salary from the church and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.
Joel OsteenI'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
George EliotThe chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation but deeds can be done only for God.
Leo TolstoyAdore man the adoration reaches Me. Neglect man, you neglect Me. Of what avail is it to worship the Lord and to suppress man His counterpart on earth? Love for God must be manifested as Love for man and Love must express itself as service.
Sai BabaO God, O God how weary stale flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
William ShakespeareCobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty that man can hit.
Babe RuthGod is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.
Billy GrahamWe hand folks over to God's mercy and show none ourselves.
George EliotThe question of whether there exists a supernatural creator a God is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no.
Richard DawkinsMan may dismiss compassion from his heart but God never will.
William CowperNever invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
Gilbert K. ChestertonCleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
P. J. O'RourkePart of me suspects that I'm a loser and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
John Lennon