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

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

We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Weil, Simone

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Mary Daly

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

Doris Egan

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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.

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

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

Walker, Alice

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

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

Bai, Mira

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Minor White

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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

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How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

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The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

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Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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

Mairaux, Andre

29.

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

Frost, Robert

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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

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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

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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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The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

Tozer, A. W.

34.

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

Webster, Daniel

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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

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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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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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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

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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.

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

43.

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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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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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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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

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

Homer

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