Motivational Quotes

God

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

- Haweis, H. R.

Best Quotes about 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

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Seneca

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

Webster, Daniel

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

Homer

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

Peck, William M.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

J. G. Holland

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

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

10.

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

Jewish Proverb

11.

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

12.

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

13.

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

Heraclitus

14.

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

Canetti, Elias

15.

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

16.

The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

17.

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

18.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

19.

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

20.

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

Chuck Palahniuk

21.

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

Paley, William

22.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

23.

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

24.

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

25.

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

Albert Einstein

26.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

27.

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.

28.

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

29.

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

30.

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

Anouilh, Jean

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

35.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

36.

I think there's a god and I know it's not me.

Michael J. Fox

37.

God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Butterworth, Eric

38.

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.

39.

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

40.

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

Albert Einstein

41.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

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

Williams, Ted

45.

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

Tillich, Paul

46.

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

47.

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