Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about God

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

J. G. Holland

Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen

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

Anna Quindlen

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

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

Tozer, A. W.

11.

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

Doris Egan

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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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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God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

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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

18.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

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

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

Homer

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

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

Agathon

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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

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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Herbert, George

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I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Bai, Mira

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The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Luther, Martin

34.

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

Daly, Mary

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

Einstein, Albert

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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

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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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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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God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

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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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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

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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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Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Eckhart, Meister

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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

46.

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

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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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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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