Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

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

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Tillich, Paul

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

Heraclitus

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The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

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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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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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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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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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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

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

Doris Egan

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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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Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen

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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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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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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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

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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 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

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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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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

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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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God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

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

Albert Einstein

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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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Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph De

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Michael J. Fox

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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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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.