Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Butterworth, Eric

Best Quotes about 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.

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

Anna Quindlen

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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.

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Burroughs, William S.

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

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]

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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]

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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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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]

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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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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]

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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

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

Mary Daly

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

Bai, Mira

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Hugh Elliott

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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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.

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Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Proverb

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

Paul, Jean

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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

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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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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.

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

Seneca

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I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

Simpson, A. B.

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

J. G. Holland

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Ramdas, Swami

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Augustine, St.

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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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I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Shakti Gawain

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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

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph De

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace