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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

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

Brenda Ueland

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

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

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

Seneca

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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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Mary Daly

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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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People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

17.

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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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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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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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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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

22.

But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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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

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Anouilh, Jean

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Walker, Alice

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Daly, Mary

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

Tozer, A. W.

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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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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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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Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

44.

And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12]

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

Anna Quindlen

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

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When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean