Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Brooks, Thomas

Best Quotes about God

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Flecker, James Elroy

God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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.

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

Brenda Ueland

10.

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

Luther, Martin

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Albert Einstein

14.

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

Bai, Mira

15.

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

Seneca

16.

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

17.

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

18.

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

19.

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

Macdonald, George

20.

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

21.

An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Tozer, A. W.

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As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Michael J. Fox

26.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

27.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

28.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

29.

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

30.

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

31.

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

Mary Daly

32.

If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore

33.

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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

Shakti Gawain

40.

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

William Blake

41.

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Voltaire

43.

Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

44.

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

45.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

46.

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

47.

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

48.

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

Anna Quindlen

49.

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

Jewish Proverb

50.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.