Top 100 The Good Lord Quotes
#1. Doesn't the expansiveness of this make you think of the good Lord? Except we know the ocean ends while He goes on forever.
Mindy Starns Clark
#2. She doesn't have anyone. For reasons we cannot comprehend, the Good Lord doesn't always reward us during our lifetime.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#3. When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.
Rick Perry
#4. Somehow, the Good Lord don't want to see no man start a cold morning with just black coffee.
Robert Newton Peck
#5. My favorite was Love Is ... Never Having to Say You're Sorry. This was,the good Lord knew, a dream of mine. But every time I refused to apologize for something, Love seemed to just fly out the window.
Haven Kimmel
#6. The good Lord grant, that false religion may cease, and true religion prevail through the earth!
Jonathan Edwards
#7. The good Lord doesn't tell you what His plan is, so all you can do is get up in the morning and see what happens next.
Richard Petty
#8. The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all considered, one would not normally choose to go. But we go where the business is.
Dick Cheney
#9. Maybe that's why the good Lord gave us these vivid memory capabilities. When stress hits, we can just close our eyes, lean back and relax, and enjoy a game of Tidly-Winks, the sound of a Pete Rose baseball card in the spokes of our bike, or maybe a nice slice of watermelon - with a sprinkle of salt.
Michael Buffalo Smith
#10. The festivities were broken up by Pandora, who lobbed a scoop of ice cream at Lex that landed on the table with a sticky sploosh.
"Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya!" she screeched, jigging back into the kitchen.
Gina Damico
#11. The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.
Mark Twain
#12. The good Lord made this world and everything that's in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.
Paul McCartney
#13. Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
Fulton J. Sheen
#14. What the good Lord giveth, he also taketh away. Then he puts it back again.
James A. Owen
#16. The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
Heinrich Heine
#17. Don't let the door hitcha where the good Lord splitcha.
Stephen King
#18. I canna think why the good Lord should waste hair like that on a man.
Diana Gabaldon
#19. The good lord tripped me up behind the line of scrimmage.
George Carlin
#20. I know the good Lord wouldn't give me any more than I can handle, but I sure wish he wouldn't have so much confidence in me.
Bernie Williams
#21. People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
Jack Nicklaus
#23. Blessed the one who has become a good spiritual net and caught many for the good Lord, such a one will greatly praised by the Lord.
Ephrem The Syrian
#24. I learned from different guys I played with, too. The key was probably three people: The good Lord, the offensive linemen I played with and great fullbacks that could block very well.
Earl Campbell
#25. Southern girls are God's gift to the entire male population. There is absolutely no woman finer than one raised below the mason-dixon line and once you go southern may the good Lord help you - you never go back
Kenny Chesney
#26. One should be an enigma not just to others but to oneself too. I study myself. When I'm tired of that I light a cigar to pass the time, and think: God only knows what the good Lord really meant with me, or what He meant to make of me.
Soren Kierkegaard
#27. The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.
Vince Lombardi
#28. It seems to me that the good lord in his infinate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable- hope, jokes, and dogs. But the greatest of these was dogs.
Robyn Davidson
#29. I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.
Fiorello H. La Guardia
#30. The good Lord gave me eight grandchildren, and I am convinced that through schools like Desert Christian that we are going to overwhelm the adversaries, not just with bombs and bullets, but with the demonstration of Christian principles.
Oliver North
#31. We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.
Victor Hugo
#32. When the Good Lord begins to doubt the world, he remembers that he created Provence.
Frederic Mistral
#33. The subconscious mind, like the Good Lord, can work in a mysterious way, and mine has been known to work in a way that is completely unintelligible, if not downright barmy.
John Dolan
#34. You know as well as I do that life has a way of clearing that path for you. And maybe the good Lord above has dropped two hundred pounds of gorgeous path-clearing answer out there at our dinner table for you.
-Taryn about Mike
Tina Reber
#35. Cause I'm carryin' your love with me
From West Virginia down to Tennessee
I'll be movin' with the good lord speed, carryin' your love with me
It's my strength for holdin' on
Every minute that I have to be gone
I'll have everything I'll ever need
Carryin' your love with me
George Strait
#36. I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.
Catherine The Great
#37. Never do business with a religious son-of-a-bitch. His word ain't worth a shit
not with the Good Lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal.
William S. Burroughs
#38. I prefer to be accused unjustly, for then I have nothing to reproach myself with, and joyfully offer this to the good Lord. Then I humble myself at the thought that I am indeed capable of doing the thing of which I have been accused.
Therese Of Lisieux
#39. [On Senator Jesse Helms] I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because if there is retributive justice, he'll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will.
Nina Totenberg
#40. An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.
Karl Kraus
#41. The statement that 'God is dead' comes from Nietzsche and has recently been trumpeted abroad by some German and American theologians. But the good Lord has not died of this; He who dwells in the heaven laughs at them.
Karl Barth
#42. Do as many gigs as the good Lord sends. That's the only true training.
Suzi Quatro
#44. We just have to have faith. The good Lord wouldn't give us more than we could bear.
Jim Butcher
#45. When others kid me about being bald, I simply tell them that the way I figure it, the good Lord only gave men so many hormones, and if others want to waste theirs on growing hair, that's up to them.
John Glenn
#46. Those who believed in the Good Lord, for whom death was just a journey, and it didn't make them sad at all
Francois Lelord
#47. There's one thing I remember about Muhammad Ali. He said "I don't like my condition, but if this is what the Good Lord has planned for me to deal with, I'm happy with that." You have to understand, that comes from my idol, one of the guys that got me started in boxing.
Roy Jones Jr.
#48. If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.
Roald Dahl
#50. The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.
Marie Osmond
#51. If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we've got the least excuse for it.
Jim Thompson
#52. I've said often enough, and the good Lord kens weel enough that boys were meant to be smacked, or he'd not ha' filled 'em sae full o' the de'il.
Diana Gabaldon
#53. Cowgirl don't cry, ride, baby, ride Lessons in life show us all in time Too soon God will let you know why If you fall get right back on The Good Lord calls everybody home Cowgirl don't cry.
Brooks And Dunn
#54. The good Lord wouldn't have put it in your heart if it wasn't right.
Neal Shusterman
#55. She wasn't much over five feet and a hundred pounds, and she looked a little scrawny around the neck and ankles. But that was all right. It was perfectly all right. The good Lord had known just where to put that flesh where it would really do some good.
Jim Thompson
#56. I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.
Neil Armstrong
#57. I'm sorry your sister had such a hard life. I guess maybe the good Lord decided she deserved some peace." I had no idea what to say to this girl. When she started to cry, I felt like a kicked dog.
Michelle Hughes
#58. I'd like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee.
Joe DiMaggio
#60. I do not really know if it is a gain to exchange the crown of martrydom with two or three years of life in freedom. But I leave the good Lord to decide.
Pavel Peter Gojdic
#61. I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.
Larry Bird
#62. Sitting still and wishing
Makes no person great;
The good Lord sends the fishing,
But you must dig the bait!
Daryl Hoole
#63. If the Good Lord meant men to use percussion caps, he wouldn't have strung flint all over the ground.
Taylor Anderson
#64. How a member of the church - one who had read the Good Lord's bible - could sit so calmly and watch a man be led to his destruction frightened me.
Jay Grewal
#65. But very often in politics we have the experience called up from my father when someone was trying to help him in the campaign: I can take care of my enemies, may the Good Lord save me from my friends.
Robert Foster Bennett
#66. Well, the good Lord and good luck must have been with me because I did exactly what I said I was going to do.
Babe Ruth
#67. I was stillborn. The midwives laid me aside, thought I was really gone. I laid there about an hour, and they picked me back up and tried again, 'cause my body was still warm. The Good Lord brought me back.
James Brown
#68. As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more. Whatever success I had was through the help of the good Lord.
Otis Redding
#69. I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.
Valerie Simpson
#70. If the Good Lord had intended us to crawl, he'd have given us a hundred legs and an exosqueleton.
Tom Holt
#71. Milt was one of the men who discovered Bobby Orr. He once said that if a player comes along who is better then Bobby Orr, may the Good Lord let me be alive to see him because he is going to be one hell of a player to watch. Enough said.
Milt Schmidt
#72. I always entreat the good Lord to give me my childhood back, that is to say, to grant that I may see nature and render it like a child, without prejudice.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
#73. Looks like the good Lord got your ass and face mixed up.
John Marston
#74. I had no idea that all the things in my career were going to happen. I sure didn't see it. I just know the good Lord blessed me with ability, blessed me with good eyesight and a good pair of hands, and then I worked at the rest.
Tony Gwynn
#75. He still loves life
But O O O O how he wishes
The good Lord would take him.
W. H. Auden
#76. No, I mean it. You don't look good."
"This from a guy who has all the sex appeal of a penguin. Look I realize you may be jealous that the good Lord didn't deal you the same chiseled hand he dealt me, but that's no reason to-
Cassandra Clare
#77. As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that's how we get judged by our colleagues and that's how we get judged by the good lord.
Rahm Emanuel
#78. The Good Lord hasn't done this well: He placed limits on everything, except on stupidity.
Konrad Adenauer
#79. The good Lord had been having a very creative day when he made Connor McKenzie
Suzanne Wright
#80. I imagine the wedding guests at Cana were awed and pleased by Jesus turning the water to wine. I also suspect that many guests in detox centers around the world today would think it a much greater miracle if, at least for them, the good Lord would retroactively turn the wine back to water.
Joe Beaton
#81. Fourteen Points? The Good Lord only gave us Ten, and do we abide by those?
Georges Clemenceau
#83. Don't let the doorknob hit you where the good Lord split you.
Maeve Greyson
#84. All we have to do is listen. The Good Lord gave us two ears and only one mouth, my dear white-headed mother used to say ...
Stephen Fry
#85. The good Lord is amazing; He opens up doors. I was close to abandoning the dream, and He was like, 'Hey, slow down there, buddy.'
David Nail
#87. That boy thinks the sun rises out of your backside. The good Lord knows why if all it produces is gas.
Sue Brown
#88. That's how the grievin' becomes after a time. You've tossed off the black blanket, but scraps of it fall on you unexpected, your life always a quilt with a dark patch or two. The Good Lord uses those to show off the bright colors, I think.
Lisa Wingate
#89. Meaning no disrespect, sir, but there's no way in the Good Lord's fucking universe that anyone can bar accidents or the unexpected.
Dan Simmons
#90. The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong body, a good right arm, and a weak mind.
Dizzy Dean
#91. There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself. As if the Good Lord had nothing better to do than exist!
C.S. Lewis
#92. Plagiarize, plagiarize, / Let no man's work evade your eyes, / Remember why the good Lord made your eyes, / Don't shade your eyes, / But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize. / Only be sure to call it research.
Tom Lehrer
#93. The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition!
John Owen
#94. The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom, but set no limits on his stupidity.
Konrad Adenauer
#95. Our houses are protected by the good Lord and a gun, and you might meet 'em both if you show up here not welcome, son.
Josh Thompson
#96. Carpe Rectum. Seize the hot ass the good Lord has provided.
Valerie Z. Lewis
#97. Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.
Roy Rogers
#99. Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#100. In my almost 92 years on this earth, the good Lord has blessed me with a great journey.
Ernie Harwell