God Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

— Henry David Thoreau

The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.

— Henry David Thoreau

Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.

— Henry David Thoreau

God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.

— Henry David Thoreau

It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.

— Henry David Thoreau

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

— Henry David Thoreau

When you knock, ask to see God — none of the servants.

— Henry David Thoreau

The gods cannot misunderstand, man cannot explain.

— Henry David Thoreau

My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Bribed with a little sunlight and a few prismatic tints, we bless our Maker, and stave off his wrath with hymns.

— Henry David Thoreau

I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start…

— Henry David Thoreau

God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman…

— Henry David Thoreau

The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker.

— Henry David Thoreau

Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever.

— Henry David Thoreau

To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within…

— Henry David Thoreau

What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only…

— Henry David Thoreau

I should fear the infinite power and inflexible justice of the almighty mortal hardly as yet apotheosized, so wholly masculine, with no…

— Henry David Thoreau

Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own,…

— Henry David Thoreau

It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears…

— Henry David Thoreau

“I cannot come nearer to God and Heaven Than I live to Walden even. I am its stony shore, And the breeze…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is not when I am going to meet him, but when I am just turning away and leaving him alone, that…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is remarkable that almost all speakers and writers feel it to be incumbent on them, sooner or later, to prove or…

— Henry David Thoreau

Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own,…

— Henry David Thoreau

As I stand over the insect crawling amid the pine needles on the forest floor, and endeavoring to conceal itself from my…

— Henry David Thoreau

Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely…

— Henry David Thoreau

An ordinary man will work every day for a year at shoveling dirt to support his body, or a family of bodies;…

— Henry David Thoreau

I am not sure but I should betake myself in extremities to the liberal divinities of Greece, rather than to my country's…

— Henry David Thoreau

I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God,…

— Henry David Thoreau

My profession is to always find God in nature.

— Henry David Thoreau

Men reverence one another, not yet God.

— Henry David Thoreau

Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.

— Henry David Thoreau

If Nature is our mother, then God is our father.

— Henry David Thoreau

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

— Henry David Thoreau

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself.

— Henry David Thoreau

“God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.”

— Henry David Thoreau

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

— Henry David Thoreau