Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

Cotvos

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

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

Seneca

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

Bible

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

10.

IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

11.

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

Einstein, Albert

12.

And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12]

Bible

13.

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

14.

We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

15.

For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]

Bible

16.

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

17.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

18.

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

19.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Flecker, James Elroy

23.

We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Weil, Simone

24.

If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

Tozer, A. W.

25.

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

26.

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Homer

29.

I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me.

Little, Paul

30.

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

31.

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

Butterworth, Eric

32.

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

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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

34.

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

Anouilh, Jean

35.

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

36.

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

Luther, Martin

37.

God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Bai, Mira

41.

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

Mary Daly

42.

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

43.

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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I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Sheen, Martin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.