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

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

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Weil, Simone

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

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

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

Sara B. Cooper

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

Brenda Ueland

11.

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

Saadi

12.

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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Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

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

Doris Egan

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Bai, Mira

18.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

19.

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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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

Williams, Ted

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The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Eckhart, Meister

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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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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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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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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 must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Butler, Samuel

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

Beckett, Samuel

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I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Sheen, Martin

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

Shakti Gawain

35.

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

36.

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

Real Live Preacher

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When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher

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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.

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

Cotvos

40.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

41.

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb

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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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I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

Hollingdale, R. J.

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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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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 hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Tillich, Paul

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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish