Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

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

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.

Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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

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

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

Bai, Mira

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

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

10.

The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer

11.

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joubert, Joseph

12.

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

Flecker, James Elroy

13.

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Peck, William M.

17.

You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

18.

The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Haggai, John

19.

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

20.

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

Plotinus

21.

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

Tozer, A. W.

22.

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

Jewish Proverb

23.

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

Bataille, Georges

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

27.

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

28.

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

Simpson, A. B.

29.

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

30.

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

31.

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

32.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

33.

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

Minor White

34.

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

Voltaire

35.

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

Steinem, Gloria

36.

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

Michael J. Fox

37.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

38.

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

39.

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Macdonald, George

40.

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

41.

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Agathon

42.

Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

Bible

43.

I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

Lawrence, D. H.

44.

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

Williams, Ted

45.

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

Proverb

46.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

47.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

48.

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

Eckhart, Meister

49.

Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. And thus I saw when we are all in peace and in love, we find no contrariness, nor no manner of letting through that contrariness which is now in us.

Norwich, Julian of

50.

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

W. Somerset Maugham