Motivational Quotes

God

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

- James Lileks

Best Quotes about God

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

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

Williams, Ted

I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me.

Little, Paul

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Webster, Daniel

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Peck, William M.

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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

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I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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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.

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

James Lileks

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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

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To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre

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

William Blake

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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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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

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

Seneca

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

Luther, Martin

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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.

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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis

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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

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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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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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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I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Wiesel, Elie

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

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

Michael J. Fox

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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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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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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You have to believe in gods to see them.