Motivational Quotes

God

If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about God

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

Macdonald, George

It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.

Coder, S. Maxwell

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

Daly, Mary

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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.

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

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

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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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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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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.

13.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

14.

God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

15.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

16.

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

Paul, Jean

18.

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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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

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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya

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

Real Live Preacher

22.

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

Irv Kupcinet

23.

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

24.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

25.

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

26.

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

Agathon

27.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

28.

Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

Mairaux, Andre

29.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

30.

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

Frost, Robert

31.

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

Proverb

32.

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]

Bible

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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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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

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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument -- their intellect -- which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

Strawson, Galen

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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

37.

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

38.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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

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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 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

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

Homer

43.

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 some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

Flecker, James Elroy

45.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

46.

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

Albert Einstein

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

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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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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.