Motivational Quotes

God

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about God

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Tozer, A. W.

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

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

Macdonald, George

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Weil, Simone

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

Agathon

10.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

11.

In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Whitman, Walt

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Eckhart, Meister

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ramdas, Swami

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

Brooks, Thomas

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You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Paley, William

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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

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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Augustine, St.

25.

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.

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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

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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

28.

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

Anna Quindlen

29.

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

Law, William

31.

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

32.

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Tillich, Paul

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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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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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John

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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

38.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

40.

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

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

Proverb

42.

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

Aughey, John H.

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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

44.

But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

Bible

45.

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

Albert Einstein

46.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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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

48.

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

49.

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

Beckett, Samuel

50.

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