Motivational Quotes

God

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.

Best Quotes about God

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

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

Stowell, Joseph

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Paul, Jean

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

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

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

Augustine, St.

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

Daly, Mary

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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

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Truett, George W.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Flavius Josephus

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And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

Flecker, James Elroy

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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

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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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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

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

Seneca

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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

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

Anna Quindlen

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If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Seneca

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

Bai, Mira

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The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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

Walker, Alice

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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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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I think there's a god and I know it's not me.

Michael J. Fox

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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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

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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

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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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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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Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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

Hugh Elliott