Motivational Quotes

God

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about God

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.

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer

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

Pascal, Blaise

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.

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument -- their intellect -- which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

Strawson, Galen

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

Seneca

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Butterworth, Eric

10.

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

11.

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

Layton, Irving

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Luther, Martin

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

Macdonald, George

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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Eckhart, Meister

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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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

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Mary Daly

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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

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What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Doris Egan

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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

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

J. G. Holland

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

Tillich, Paul

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

Albert Einstein

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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

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Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Maclaren, Alexander

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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

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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

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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

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Connolly, Cyril

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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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

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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

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

Michael J. Fox

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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

49.

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

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader