Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about God

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Bai, Mira

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.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Proverb

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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

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

Webster, Daniel

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

Homer

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

Seneca

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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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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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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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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Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. And thus I saw when we are all in peace and in love, we find no contrariness, nor no manner of letting through that contrariness which is now in us.

Norwich, Julian of

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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

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

Voltaire

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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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

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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

Bataille, Georges

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

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The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Haggai, John

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It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.

Coder, S. Maxwell

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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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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 God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Saadi

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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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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.

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A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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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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God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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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

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

Michael J. Fox

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

Luther, Martin

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God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer