Motivational Quotes

God

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about God

As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

Heraclitus

When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen

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]

Bible

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

Butterworth, Eric

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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

Shakti Gawain

10.

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

11.

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

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

14.

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

15.

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

Anna Quindlen

16.

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

Jewish Proverb

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

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

Picabia, Francis

20.

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

21.

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya

22.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

23.

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

24.

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

James Lileks

25.

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

26.

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

Chuck Palahniuk

27.

We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Weil, Simone

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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

29.

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

30.

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

31.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

32.

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.

33.

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

Albert Einstein

34.

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

Saadi

35.

God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

36.

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

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

J. G. Holland

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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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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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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.

42.

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

Williams, Ted

43.

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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

45.

Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

46.

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

Walker, Alice

47.

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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EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. WeÆre looking for something, though weÆre not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preacher

49.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm