Motivational Quotes

God

Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

- Little, Paul

Best Quotes about God

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

Eckhart, Meister

The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Haggai, John

And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12]

Bible

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.

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

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

Sara B. Cooper

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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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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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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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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

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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

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

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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

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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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I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

Lawrence, D. H.

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Agathon

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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

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

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God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John

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

Real Live Preacher

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]

Bible

31.

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

Webster, Daniel

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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

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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

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God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

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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.

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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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Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Butterworth, Eric

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God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

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Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

Little, Paul

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

Mairaux, Andre

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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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

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

Mary Daly

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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Luther, Martin

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You have to believe in gods to see them.