Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Doris Egan

Best Quotes about God

Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Aughey, John H.

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Auden, W. H.

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 always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

10.

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

Shakti Gawain

11.

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

12.

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

Flecker, James Elroy

13.

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]

Bible

14.

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

15.

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

Chuck Palahniuk

16.

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

Voltaire

17.

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

Brenda Ueland

18.

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

Jewish Proverb

19.

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

20.

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

21.

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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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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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.

24.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Proverb

30.

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Butler, Samuel

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

34.

It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Thoreau, Henry David

35.

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.

36.

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

Irv Kupcinet

37.

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

38.

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

Anouilh, Jean

39.

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

40.

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

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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

42.

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

43.

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.

44.

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

Michael J. Fox

45.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

46.

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

47.

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

Steinem, Gloria

48.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

49.

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

Law, William

50.

God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.