Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about 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

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Seneca

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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

W. Somerset Maugham

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Michael J. Fox

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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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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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Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

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

Tozer, A. W.

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I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me.

Little, Paul

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

Seneca

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The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Irv Kupcinet

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

Hugh Elliott

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The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

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To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

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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

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

Tillich, Paul

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Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

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

Williams, Ted

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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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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Cecil, Richard

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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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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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I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

Simpson, A. B.

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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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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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In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Tozer, A. W.

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

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

Herbert, George

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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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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

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

Luther, Martin

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When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher

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

Cervantes, Miguel De