Motivational Quotes

God

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

- Brenda Ueland

Best Quotes about God

God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

Joubert, Joseph

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

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

Cotvos

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

Butterworth, Eric

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen

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

Flecker, James Elroy

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre

10.

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

Augustine, St.

11.

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

12.

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

13.

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

Doris Egan

14.

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Butler, Samuel

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.

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

Luther, Martin

17.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

18.

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

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

Irv Kupcinet

22.

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

23.

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer

24.

If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

Newton, John

25.

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Hoffer, Eric

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Churchill, Winston

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Tozer, A. W.

34.

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

Mary Daly

35.

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

Eckhart, Meister

36.

God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gulbranson, Gary

37.

He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

Kempis, Thomas

38.

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

39.

If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Daly, Mary

40.

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

Bai, Mira

41.

Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

42.

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

Macdonald, George

43.

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

44.

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

Michael J. Fox

45.

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

46.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

47.

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

J. G. Holland

48.

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

Sara B. Cooper

49.

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

50.

The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John