Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Carter, Angela

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

Walker, Alice

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

Anna Quindlen

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Williams, Tennessee

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Paley, William

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

Peck, William M.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

11.

Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

12.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

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

Bai, Mira

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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.

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Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

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A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Seneca

18.

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

Sara B. Cooper

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What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Hugh Elliott

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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.

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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

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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

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Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

Bible

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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

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Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Kempis, Thomas

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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Cecil, Richard

28.

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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

30.

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Tillich, Paul

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

Paul, Jean

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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

35.

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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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

37.

Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Maclaren, Alexander

38.

When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

39.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

40.

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

41.

The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

42.

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

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The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

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In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Whitman, Walt

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

46.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Augustine, St.

47.

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Burroughs, William S.

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

49.

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

50.

Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

Little, Paul