God quotes

“Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.” Mother Teresa

“There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.” Mother Teresa

“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.” Mother Teresa

“Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.” Hippocrates

“Cocaine is God's way of saying that you're making too much money.” Robin Williams

“See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.” Robin Williams

“I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.” Oscar Wilde

“When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.” Oscar Wilde

“God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.” Voltaire

“God is always on the side of the big battalions.” Voltaire

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.” Voltaire

“There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.” Agatha Christie

“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.” Leonardo da Vinci

“God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.” Pablo Picasso

“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Heaven means to be one with God.” Confucius

“Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.” Confucius

“God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.” Arthur Young

“The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.” Arthur Young

“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” Thomas Jefferson

“Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.” Thomas Jefferson

“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.” Thomas Jefferson

“If God is just, I tremble for my country.” Thomas Jefferson

“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.” Andre Gide

“Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.” Andre Gide

“God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.” Andre Gide

“Charity 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 Exupery

“Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.” Sigmund Freud

“Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?” Sigmund Freud

“If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.” Bernard Meltzer