God Quotes, Quotations & Sayings

Is man one of God’s blunders, or is God one of man’s blunders?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God.
Augustine

Most people wish to serve God - but only in an advisory capacity.
Anonymous

I believe in God; I just don’t trust anyone who works for him.
Anonymous

Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else.
Herbert Butterfield (Christianity and History)

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank.
Christina Rossetti

I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.
Voltaire

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
C.S. Lewis

Your mind works very simply: you are either trying to find out what are God’s laws in order to follow them; or you are trying to outsmart Him.
Martin H. Fischer

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.
Euripides

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.
Joseph Roux (Meditations of a Parish Priest, 1886)

The self-appointed spokesmen for God incline to shout; He, Himself, speaks only in whispers.
Martin H. Fischer

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
Malcolm Muggeridge

All that I have seen teaches me to trust God for all I have not seen.
Anonymous

When I saw others straining toward God, I did not understand it, for though I may have had him less than they did, there was no one blocking the way between him and me, and I could reach his heart easily. It is up to him, after all, to have us, our part consists of almost solely in letting him grasp us.
Rainer Maria Rilke (Rilke and Benvenuta: An Intimate Correspondence)

Once one has seen God, what is the remedy?
Sylvia Plath

God pays, but not weekly wages.
Polish proverb

No God, no peace. Know God, know peace.
Anonymous

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.
Albert Einstein

I do not believe in God, for that implies an effort of the will - I see God everywhere!
Jean Favre

God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.
Martin Luther

To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
Samuel Butler

Darkness cannot put out the Light. It can only make God brighter.
Anonymous

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Irv Kupcinet

God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.
Anonymous

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.
Stanley Lindquist

God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
C.S. Lewis

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.
Mary Daly

God loves us the way we are, but too much to leave us that way.
Leighton Ford