Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about God

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Shakti Gawain

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

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

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

Seneca

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

13.

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

Homer

14.

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

Saadi

15.

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

Mairaux, Andre

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

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

Doris Egan

20.

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

21.

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

22.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

23.

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

Sir Julian Huxley

24.

How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel

25.

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

26.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

27.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

28.

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.

29.

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

30.

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

Tozer, A. W.

31.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

32.

You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

33.

We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

34.

God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

35.

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

36.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Butterworth, Eric

40.

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

Luther, Martin

41.

Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Proverb

46.

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Brooks, Thomas

47.

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

Aughey, John H.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

James Lileks