Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

Albert Einstein

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

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.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

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

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Luther, Martin

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Bai, Mira

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher

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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

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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

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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

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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

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I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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.

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

Joubert, Joseph

33.

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

Hugh Elliott

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

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

Frost, Robert

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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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

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

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Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis

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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

William Blake

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While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

Jewish Proverb

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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Brooks, Thomas