Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

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

Brooks, Thomas

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

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.

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Bai, Mira

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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

Sir Julian Huxley

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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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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EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. WeÆre looking for something, though weÆre not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

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

Albert Einstein

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

Peck, William M.

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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

Williams, Ted

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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

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'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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

Real Live Preacher

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Tozer, A. W.

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

Tozer, A. W.

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In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Weil, Simone

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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Brookner, Anita

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

Heraclitus

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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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I think there's a god and I know it's not me.

Michael J. Fox

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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