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

God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Stone, Lucy

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Flavius Josephus

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

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

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

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

Bunuel, Luis

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Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Kempis, Thomas

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God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gulbranson, Gary

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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

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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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Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Carter, Angela

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

Proverb

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

Seneca

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

Daly, Mary

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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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People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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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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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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

Augustine, St.