Top 100 God Save Quotes
#1. Vorobyaninov, I've got a pressing artistic task for you,' he whispered. 'Go over to the exit from the first-class hallway and stand there. If somebody approaches, start singing, loudly.'
The old man was taken aback. 'But what should I sing?'
'Not "God Save the Tsar," that's for sure!
Ilya Ilf
#2. No god save self, that is the way to live ...
Conrad Aiken
#3. Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its worst at the full moon. I suppose because it is the leader of the stars.
Lady Gregory
#4. The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."
Ernest Renan
#5. London.
In two days.
London, England.
May God save her ... forget the queen.
Rachel Van Dyken
#7. If at any time, then we are troubled at the small number of those who believe, let us, on the other hand, call to mind, that none comprehend the mysteries of God save those to whom it is given.
John Calvin
#8. God save me ere I have any babies. They are grabby, clingy creatures who steal your figure and always want a ribbon or a wooden sword. And who sometimes make you die bearing them.
J. Anderson Coats
#9. She was in love. In love with the same man she'd always been in love with-God save her.
Tara Janzen
#10. God save me from fools with a little philosophy - no one is more difficult to reach.
Epictetus
#11. I have nothing to regret, to retract or take back ... I can only say; God Save Ireland!
Edward Condon
#12. I am a professed atheist, until I find myself in serious circumstances. Then I quickly fall on my knees, in my mind if not literally, and I say : 'Please God, save me from this.'
Don McCullin
#13. You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.
Joe Klein
#14. Imora thea mi savur, Ash whispered under his breath in Atlantean. God save me from love.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#16. Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
Bernard Malamud
#17. The moment I stopped praying, God, save me, and instead prayed, God, use me, I felt free.
Kenneth Bae
#18. I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty.
John Howard
#19. Then there was the concert where the boys refused to sing 'God Save the King' because of the pudding they had had for luncheon. One way and another, I have been consistently unfortunate in my efforts at festivity. And yet I look forward to each new fiasco with the utmost relish.
Evelyn Waugh
#20. God save us from half the people who think they're doing God's work.
Dean Winchester
#21. God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.
Russell Crowe
#22. Gay love, God save it, so soone hotte, so soone colde.
Nicholas Udall
#23. God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless. Those who plot impossible upheavals among us, are either young and do not know our people, or are hard-hearted men who do not care a straw either about their own lives or those of others.
Alexander Pushkin
#24. You're history, Donohue. You think countries run the fucking world! Go back to fucking Sunday school. It's 'God save our multinational' they're singing these days.
John Le Carre
#27. God save me from a woman's tears, for I've no strength against them.
Libba Bray
#28. It's what I'll be singing in the morning. It won't be God Save the Ruddy King or All Things bleeding Bright and Beautiful. It'll be Orange and Lemons for Big Joe, for all of us.
Michael Morpurgo
#29. God save you, my brethren, with all your -isms and schisms! I am a citizen of the world, and a man of Weimer. I have established myself by culture in this choice society; and if anyone knows a better place, let him go to it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#30. Ladies and gentlemen, well may we say 'God Save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General. The proclamation you have just heard was countersigned Malcolm Fraser, who will go down in history as Kerr's cur.
Gough Whitlam
#31. God save us from people who think they're smarter than they actually are.
Michael Cunningham
#32. God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.
Paddy Chayefsky
#33. If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let them be accursed at His coming. God save you from your fate. Amen!
Alexander Anderson
#34. Where might is, the right is:
Long purses make strong swords.
Let weakness learn meekness:
God save the House of Lords!
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#35. Now there was the rustling of skirts, and it kicked up her smell, that distinctive blend of vanilla and violets, lavender and roses - an entire moving garden with a kitchen thrown in for good measure, and God save the allergic.
Meredith Duran
#36. God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll settle for a world with good manners.
Mary Doria Russell
#37. God save King Pendragon,
May his reign long drag on,
God save the King.
Send him most gorious,
Great and uproarious,
Horrible and hoarious,
God save our King.
T.H. White
#39. Dante felt awful for whatever sorry fucker fell in love with his daughter. May God save that poor man's soul because Dante sure as hell wouldn't.
Bethany-Kris
#40. Up the Rebels, To Hell with the Pope,
And God Save
as you prefer
the King or Ireland.
The land of scholars and saints:
Scholars and saints my eye, the land of ambush,
Purblind manifestoes, never-ending complaints
Louis MacNeice
#41. Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.
Robertson Davies
#42. May God save any country to remain in a position to choose between a genius of bad character and a stupid of good character, because both will bring disaster to that country!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#43. Herat, 8 December. What a day it was! God save me from any more adventures on a drained stomach.
Robert Byron
#44. God save the King!"
Old Sapt's mouth wrinkled into a smile.
"God save 'em both!" he whispered.
Anthony Hope
#45. God, save me from temperance," Tilly said. "You haven't seen a party till you get a group of Anglicans and Catholics trying to beat each other to the bottom of a bottle."
"Now, that's not nice, Mrs Fagan," Father Michel said. "I've never met an Anglican that could keep up with me.
James S.A. Corey
#46. He looked glad to be on his way and made a beeline for the exit. Just as he was out the door, however, he stuck his head back in.
"I don't mind foreigners. God save the queen!" he squeaked, and ran.
Bones arched a brow. I sighed.
"Didn't hear that part? Never mind. Don't ask.
Jeaniene Frost
#47. A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!" cried a cheerful voice. It was the voice of Scrooge's nephew, who came upon him so quickly that this was the first intimation he had of his approach. "Bah!" said Scrooge, "Humbug!
Charles Dickens
#48. God save him, she smelled of a field of roses and tasted sweeter than port wine.
Drawing her hands over her mouth Charlotte gasped. "Hugh. How did we end up on the bed?"
"I think we must have floated," he whispered.
Amy Jarecki
#49. "God save our gracious Queen": Why would we invoke a non-specific deity to bail out these unelected spongers?
Bill Bailey
#53. I don't mind foreigners. God save the queen! he squeaked and ran.
Jeaniene Frost
#54. The monarchy is so extraordinarily useful. When Britain wins a battle she shouts, "God save the Queen"; when she loses, she votes down the prime minister.
Winston Churchill
#55. And if one feels anything in the presence of God save an utter poverty of spirit, it ultimately means that you have never faced Him.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#57. May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.
Millard Fillmore
#59. When you get saved, you get saved not because you deserve it, but because you simply let God save you and because you confess your own poor sinful state and your inability to save yourself.
John R. Rice
#60. God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good.
Graham Greene
#61. The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and clothing. God save the King is a tune composed by Lully for a chorus in a play by Racine.
Honore De Balzac
#62. When Luke's ready, mark my words, he'll get his own f**kin' woman and God save us all.
Kristen Ashley
#64. Well may we say 'God save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General'.
Gough Whitlam
#65. Sentinel meeting tonight," Ria told her. "At Lucas's place."
"Time?"
...
"Seven. Sascha's doing dinner."
"God save us all." Sascha had decided she liked cooking. Unfortunately, cooking didn't like her back.
Nalini Singh
#66. God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell!
Charles Spurgeon
#67. God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.
Sue Grafton
#68. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true, that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during "God Save the King" than stealing from a poor box
George Orwell
#69. I sacrifice to no god save myself- And to my belly, greatest of deities.
Euripides
#70. It is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during 'God save the King' than of stealing from a poor box
George Orwell
#73. Give your false prophet a message for me. Tell him Jesus befriended the whores and the thieves and the sinners. Tell him his Old Testament God is dead. God doesn't punish the wicked and save the righteous. God is love.
Jennifer Bosworth
#74. I always have the feeling we are merely fearfully trying to save room for God; I would rather speak of God at the center than at the limits, in strength rather than weakness, and thus in human life and goodness rather than in death and guilt.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#75. I didn't understand how someone could be God and the devil. How the same person could destroy you and save you."
- Sam Roth
Maggie Stiefvater
#77. Forgive yourself for being a human creature, Ramezay. That is the beginning of wisdom; that is part of what is meant by the fear of God; and for you it is the only way to save your sanity. Begin now, or you will end up with your saint in the madhouse.
Robertson Davies
#78. God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will provide for tomorrow. Then we need not stockpile stuff in barns or a 401(k), especially when there is someone in need.
Shane Claiborne
#79. (I invented rock and roll. You wouldn't believe the things I've invented. Anal sex, obviously. Smoking. Astrology. Money ... Let's save time: Everything in the world that distracts you from thinking about God. Which ... pretty much ... is everything in the world, isn't it? Gosh.)
Glen Duncan
#81. The aircraft found the ground before Teddy did and he watched as it exploded in a glittery starburst of light. He would live, he realized. There would be an afterward after all. He gave thanks to whichever god had stepped in to save him.
Kate Atkinson
#82. The purpose of the Bible is simply to proclaim God's plan to save His children. It asserts that man is lost and needs to be saved. And it communicates the message that Jesus is the God in the flesh sent to save His children.
Max Lucado
#83. When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
Flannery O'Connor
#84. The offspring of the woman, Jesus Christ, came into the world to save women who have dethroned God, taken His place, defined personhood as tissue, and willed the death of their own child. It can't be reversed, but it can be forgiven. That is why Christ died.
John Piper
#85. They were treated as though they were angels sent from God to save them from everlasting destruction - therefore,
Joseph Smith Jr.
#86. I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting God from Job-like anguish. But if God is the God of Jesus Christ, then God does not need our protection. What God demands is not protection, but truth.
Stanley Hauerwas
#87. The purpose of God is not to save us from hell; the purpose of God is to save us to make us like Christ and to make us like God. God will never be done with us until the day we see His face, when His name will be on our foreheads; and we shall be like Him because we shall see Him as He is.
A.W. Tozer
#88. When Ignatius understood that God did not wish him to remain at Jerusalem, he began to consider what he should do. The plan he approved and adopted was to enter upon a course of study in order to be better fitted to save souls.
Saint Ignatius
#89. God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
John Muir
#90. The evidence for evolution is so compelling that the only way to save the creation theory is to assume that God deliberately planted enormous quantities of evidence to make it look as if evolution had happened.
Richard Dawkins
#91. God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.
Kahlil Gibran
#92. God didn't save his son one stroke of misery. He won't withhold any good thing from you.
Stephen Altrogge
#93. Prayers offered in faith and then followed by songs of thanksgiving, praise and worship are an expression of our faith and love for God. Joy results when you have faith in the greatness of God and his power to deliver and save you and others from adverse circumstances and enemies.
James Strand
#94. The simple power of prayer can save us all kinds of time and trouble if we will ask God to give us wisdom and discernment in our relationships.
Joyce Meyer
#95. There are a lot of singers who cannot sing to save their lives. We have to accept it, but thank God there is such a thing as live shows. It's only when people are faced with live shows that the world gets to know how good or how bad they are.
Sonu Nigam
#96. God already knew the ones who would be saved, even before their birth
Sunday Adelaja
#97. There is an apparent need to save the earth and the means God chose to do this is not by sending POWER but by sending his Son
Sunday Adelaja
#99. They tell you how the demands of this law, which you and I cannot meet, have been met on our behalf, how God Himself becomes a man to save man from the disapproval of God.
C.S. Lewis
#100. How does it save the world to reject unabashed joy when it is joy that saves us? Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering. The converse does. (Page 58)
Ann Voskamp
