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

But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

Bible

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

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

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

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

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

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

Aughey, John H.

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

Truett, George W.

11.

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

Voltaire

13.

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

Seneca

14.

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

Augustine, St.

15.

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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Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Williams, Tennessee

19.

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

20.

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

21.

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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

Shakti Gawain

25.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Picabia, Francis

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God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

Mencken, H. L.

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

31.

I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Albert Einstein

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Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Proverb

35.

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

Luther, Martin

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We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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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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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

43.

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

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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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Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

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

Bai, Mira

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If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb

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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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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria