Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Augustine, St.

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

Albert Einstein

We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Sara B. Cooper

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Macdonald, George

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

10.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

11.

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

Real Live Preacher

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

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

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

16.

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

17.

Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

18.

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

19.

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Kempis, Thomas

20.

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.

21.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

Picasso, Pablo

22.

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Carter, Angela

23.

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

Mary Daly

24.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

25.

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

Bataille, Georges

26.

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

Saadi

27.

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

28.

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Cecil, Richard

29.

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

30.

We want God to come and save us. But he wonÆt. God doesnÆt stop levees from failing, he doesnÆt stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesnÆt stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant

31.

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

Brenda Ueland

32.

Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Daly, Mary

33.

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

Williams, Ted

34.

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.

35.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

36.

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

Hugh Elliott

37.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

38.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

39.

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

40.

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

Beckett, Samuel

41.

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

Williams, Tennessee

42.

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

Anna Quindlen

43.

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

Butterworth, Eric

44.

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

45.

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

46.

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

47.

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

48.

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

Agathon

49.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Seneca

50.

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