Motivational Quotes

God

Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

- Maclaren, Alexander

Best Quotes about God

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.

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

Proverb

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

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

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.

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

Seneca

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

Real Live Preacher

God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

10.

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

Truett, George W.

11.

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

12.

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

Voltaire

13.

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

14.

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

15.

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre

16.

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Tozer, A. W.

17.

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

Brenda Ueland

18.

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

19.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Churchill, Winston

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Beckett, Samuel

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

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

Hugh Elliott

25.

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

26.

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

27.

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

28.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

29.

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

30.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

31.

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

32.

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

Butterworth, Eric

33.

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

Herbert, George

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

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

Albert Einstein

37.

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

Jewish Proverb

38.

As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

39.

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

40.

The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

41.

If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent.

Qur'an

42.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

43.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

44.

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

45.

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

Homer

46.

I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

Simpson, A. B.

47.

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

48.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.

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

Saadi

50.

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

Stowell, Joseph