Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Francis Cardinal Spellman

Best Quotes about God

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

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

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

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Homer

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

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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

10.

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Stone, Lucy

11.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

12.

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

Aughey, John H.

13.

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

Cotvos

14.

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

15.

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

Seneca

16.

The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

Freud, Sigmund

17.

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Carter, Angela

18.

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.

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

William Blake

21.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

22.

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

23.

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Brooks, Thomas

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

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

Doris Egan

28.

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

Paul, Jean

29.

People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

30.

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.

31.

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

Walker, Alice

32.

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

33.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

34.

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

35.

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

Flecker, James Elroy

36.

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

Luther, Martin

37.

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.

Real Live Preacher

38.

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

La Bruyere, Jean De

39.

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

Eckhart, Meister

40.

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

Heraclitus

41.

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

Bai, Mira

42.

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

43.

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

Daly, Mary

44.

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Cecil, Richard

45.

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

46.

When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

47.

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Kempis, Thomas

48.

There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

49.

Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

50.

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

Anouilh, Jean