Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

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

James Lileks

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

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

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

Tillich, Paul

We want God to come and save us. But he wonÆt. God doesnÆt stop levees from failing, he doesnÆt stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesnÆt stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant

When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Beckett, Samuel

10.

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

Ramdas, Swami

11.

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

William Blake

12.

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

13.

IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

14.

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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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.

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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

17.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

18.

I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

Simpson, A. B.

19.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

20.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

21.

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

22.

If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

Newton, John

23.

At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

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Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

Mairaux, Andre

25.

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.

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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

28.

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

Law, William

29.

Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

Little, Paul

30.

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

31.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

34.

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ziglar, Zig

35.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

36.

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

Cioran, E. M.

37.

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

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What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

40.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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.

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

Butterworth, Eric

43.

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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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

45.

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

J. G. Holland

46.

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

Luther, Martin

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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.

48.

If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

Bunuel, Luis

49.

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

Aughey, John H.

50.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich