God Quotes

God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.

The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.

It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.

Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.

For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.

Those faithful Mormon pioneers ... were willing to put everything on the altar to sacrifice for and defend their God and their faith.

Mothers reflect God's loving presence on earth.

A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in the spiritual life, the human will leaves off and divine grace begins.

Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.

It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow-men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally.

Hatred toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart as love to God.

The whole of creation, with all of its laws, is a revelation of God.

The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers.

The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people.

In books I converse with men, in the Bible I converse with God.

Gratitude to God makes even a temporal blessing a taste of heaven.

God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others.

How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God!

Laws are the silent assessors of God.

God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.

The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God He knows, thy share thereof is small.

Why what a fool was I to this drunken monster for a God. - Caliban

Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.

For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.

God mark thee to His grace! Thou was the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. And might I live to see thee married once, I have my wish.

That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th' account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure.

O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!

The hideous god of war.

This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas; And utters it again when God doth please: He is wit's pedler; and retails his wares.

Would I were dead, if God's good will were so, For what is in this world but grief and woe?

God defend the right.

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night: I thank my God for my humility.

Well, God's above all; and there be souls must be saved, and there be souls must not be saved.

Why, thou owest god a death.

If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening.

Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's.

However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.

God is our fortress, in whose conquering name Let us resolve to scale their flinty bulwarks.

Good God, the souls of all my tribe defend From jealousy!

God's will! my liege, would you and I alone, Without more help, could fight this royal battle!

God send everyone their heart's desire!

In God's name cheerly on, courageous friends, To reap the harvest of perpetual peace By this one bloody trial of sharp war.

By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death and let it go which way it will he that dies this year is quit for the next

What can be avoided Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?

Nothing reveals character more than self-sacrifice. So the highest knowledge we have of God is through the gift of His Son.

The best of what we do and are, Just God, forgive!

Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove.