Quotations on God

When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.

~ George Bernard Shaw

God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.

~ Saint Augustine

If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him.

~ Voltaire

If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.

~ Voltaire

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.

~ Abraham Lincoln

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

~ Georg C. Lichtenberg

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.

~ H.L. Mencken

In the faces of men and women I see God.

~ Walt Whitman

God enters by a private door into every individual.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

How to make God laugh: Tell him your future plans.

~ Woody Allen

God is clever, but not dishonest.

~ Albert Einstein

You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.

~ Benjamin Jowett

It's God - I'd have known Him by Blake's picture anywhere.

~ Robert Frost

Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employ a million.

~ Mark Twain

God never made His work for man to mend.

~ John Dryden

God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get things done.

~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.

~ John Burroughs

I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.

~ Edwin Arlington Robinson

What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?

~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Try thyself first, and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.

~ Euripides

God sends us meat, the devil sends us cooks.

~ Proverbs

We love the Lord, of course, but we often wonder what He finds in us.

~ Ed Howe

God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.

~ Plutarch

God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.

~ Heywood Broun

Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.

~ Christopher Morley

God made the country and man made the town.

~ William Cowper