Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

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

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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

The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

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And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

Flecker, James Elroy

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

Bible

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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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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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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

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

21.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

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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.

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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

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Cotvos

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I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Stone, Lucy

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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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If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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 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

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

Sara B. Cooper

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

Joubert, Joseph

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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

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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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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 does what he can, God does what he will.

Proverb

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

Doris Egan

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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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Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. And thus I saw when we are all in peace and in love, we find no contrariness, nor no manner of letting through that contrariness which is now in us.

Norwich, Julian of

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

Aughey, John H.