Motivational Quotes

God

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

- Agathon

Best Quotes about God

1.

O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

2.

I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

3.

If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

Bunuel, Luis

4.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

5.

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

6.

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

7.

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

8.

God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

9.

EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. WeÆre looking for something, though weÆre not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preacher

10.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

11.

We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

12.

I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

Hollingdale, R. J.

13.

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya

14.

God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

Mencken, H. L.

15.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

18.

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

19.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

20.

People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

21.

God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

22.

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

23.

If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

24.

God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

25.

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

26.

I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me.

Little, Paul

27.

There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

28.

We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Weil, Simone

29.

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

30.

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Anouilh, Jean

31.

God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

32.

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

33.

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

34.

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

35.

Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Daly, Mary

36.

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

37.

If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent.

Qur'an

38.

Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Butterworth, Eric

39.

How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

40.

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

41.

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joubert, Joseph

42.

God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Butterworth, Eric

43.

Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?