Motivational Quotes

God

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.

Best Quotes about God

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

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

Frost, Robert

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Brookner, Anita

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Burroughs, William S.

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

Seneca

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

10.

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

11.

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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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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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

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

Augustine, St.

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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

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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

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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

18.

God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

19.

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

Flecker, James Elroy

20.

If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent.

Qur'an

21.

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

22.

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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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

24.

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

Jewish Proverb

25.

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

Bataille, Georges

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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

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Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

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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

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

Joubert, Joseph

30.

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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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

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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

33.

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

34.

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

Proverb

35.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Churchill, Winston

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

Aughey, John H.

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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

38.

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

Law, William

39.

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

40.

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

Mairaux, Andre

41.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

42.

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

Hugh Elliott

43.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

44.

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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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

46.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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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

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

50.

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

Proverb, Yiddish