Motivational Quotes

God

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about God

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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

Brenda Ueland

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

Maclaren, Alexander

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

10.

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

Daly, Mary

11.

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

Doris Egan

12.

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

Webster, Daniel

13.

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

Truett, George W.

14.

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

Beckett, Samuel

15.

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

16.

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

17.

If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Daly, Mary

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph De

21.

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

Plotinus

22.

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

Pascal, Blaise

23.

If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

Newton, John

24.

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

25.

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

26.

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer

27.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

29.

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

30.

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

31.

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

Saadi

32.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

33.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

35.

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

36.

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

Mary Daly

37.

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

Agathon

38.

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

39.

There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

40.

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

Flavius Josephus

41.

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

42.

God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

43.

Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

Matthias

44.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

45.

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

Jewish Proverb

46.

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Brooks, Thomas

47.

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.