Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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

Homer

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

Agathon

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

Saadi

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Stowell, Joseph

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

10.

O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Seneca

16.

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

17.

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

18.

If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

Bunuel, Luis

19.

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

20.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

21.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

22.

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

23.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

24.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

26.

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

27.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

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

29.

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

30.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

31.

The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

33.

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

Michael J. Fox

34.

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

Voltaire

35.

Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

Bible

36.

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

Aughey, John H.

37.

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

38.

But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

Bible

39.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

40.

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

Brooks, Thomas

41.

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

Herbert, George

42.

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.

43.

While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

47.

When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

48.

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

49.

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Eckhart, Meister

50.

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