Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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.

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

Aughey, John H.

God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

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

Beckett, Samuel

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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

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

Agathon

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

Frost, Robert

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

Tozer, A. W.

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. And thus I saw when we are all in peace and in love, we find no contrariness, nor no manner of letting through that contrariness which is now in us.

Norwich, Julian of

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I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

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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

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Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

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

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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

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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Connolly, Cyril

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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Augustine, St.

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It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Weil, Simone

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Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

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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

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

Saadi

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I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Tillich, Paul

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

Voltaire

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

Hugh Elliott

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Tozer, A. W.

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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