Motivational Quotes

God

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

- Cioran, E. M.

Best Quotes about God

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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.

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

Canetti, Elias

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Agathon

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.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel

10.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

11.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

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

William Blake

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

16.

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

Cotvos

17.

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

18.

Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

Margaret Atwood

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God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

22.

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

Bai, Mira

23.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice

24.

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

25.

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

Shakti Gawain

26.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

27.

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

Doris Egan

28.

Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Daly, Mary

29.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

30.

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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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

32.

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

33.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

34.

At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

35.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

36.

Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen

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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.

Bible

38.

Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

39.

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

41.

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

Saadi

42.

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

43.

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

Luther, Martin

44.

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

Anna Quindlen

45.

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

46.

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

Hugh Elliott

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

Simpson, A. B.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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