Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

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

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Tillich, Paul

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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.

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

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

13.

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

Irv Kupcinet

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

20.

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Albert Einstein

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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

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Seneca

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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 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

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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

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Anna Quindlen

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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Tozer, A. W.

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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

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

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

Doris Egan

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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

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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.

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