Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Flecker, James Elroy

Best Quotes about God

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

The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Agathon

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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

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

10.

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

Luther, Martin

11.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

12.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

13.

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

14.

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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

17.

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

18.

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

Cioran, E. M.

19.

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

20.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

21.

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

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

23.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

24.

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

Bai, Mira

25.

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

26.

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

27.

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

Anna Quindlen

28.

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

Homer

29.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

30.

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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Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

32.

We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

34.

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

Daly, Mary

35.

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

Butterworth, Eric

36.

The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

37.

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Macdonald, George

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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.

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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.

40.

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

Steinem, Gloria

41.

Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

42.

Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

43.

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

Brenda Ueland

44.

Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

Matthias

45.

For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

Stowell, Joseph

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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

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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.