Motivational Quotes

God

Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

- Anna Quindlen

Best Quotes about God

It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument -- their intellect -- which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

Strawson, Galen

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? [Numbers 23:19]

Bible

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

Butterworth, Eric

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

10.

God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

11.

Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

12.

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

La Bruyere, Jean De

13.

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

14.

In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Weil, Simone

15.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

16.

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Brookner, Anita

17.

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Weil, Simone

18.

God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Auden, W. H.

19.

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Herbert, George

20.

To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

21.

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

22.

As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

23.

Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

24.

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

Bataille, Georges

25.

You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Doris Egan

26.

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Macdonald, George

27.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

28.

God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

29.

What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

30.

If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu, Charles De

31.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice

32.

The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Eckhart, Meister

33.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

34.

I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Bai, Mira

35.

The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

Tozer, A. W.

36.

God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

Williams, Ted

37.

Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

38.

Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

39.

God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

40.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

41.

I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Wiesel, Elie

42.

We want God to come and save us. But he wonÆt. God doesnÆt stop levees from failing, he doesnÆt stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesnÆt stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant

43.

God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

44.

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

45.

It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.

Coder, S. Maxwell

46.

The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer

47.

Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

48.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

49.

If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore

50.

You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper