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God Quotes by John Adams
- Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
- Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
- But all provisions that He (God) has made for the gratification of our senses…are much inferior to the provision, the wonderful provision that He has…
- The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...Do…
- Thanks to God that he gave me stubborness when I know I am right.
- You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. — I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it…
- God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in…
- We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not make us happy.…
- Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when…
- Inequalities of mind and body are so established by God Almighty, in his constitution of human nature, that no art or policy can ever plane…
- The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and there is not a force…
- The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings…
- Consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or…
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