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God Quotes by Georges Bernanos
- Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it…
- And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons on earth, to…
- Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of…
- God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.
- God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?
- The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.
More God Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi