Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Daly, Mary

Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

Matthias

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

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Ramdas, Swami

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.

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

Jewish Proverb

10.

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

11.

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

James Lileks

12.

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

13.

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

14.

Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

15.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

16.

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

Plotinus

17.

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

18.

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

Law, William

19.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

20.

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

21.

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

Albert Einstein

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Tillich, Paul

25.

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Herbert, George

26.

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.

27.

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

Homer

28.

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

29.

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

Minor White

30.

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

31.

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

Real Live Preacher

32.

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

33.

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

34.

Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

38.

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

Paley, William

39.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice

40.

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

Luther, Martin

41.

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

Irv Kupcinet

42.

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

43.

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.

The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Ramakrishna, Sri

45.

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

46.

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

Mairaux, Andre

47.

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

Agathon

48.

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

Anouilh, Jean

49.

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

Chuck Palahniuk

50.

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.