Motivational Quotes

God

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

- Sir Julian Huxley

Best Quotes about God

I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

Matthias

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ziglar, Zig

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

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

Daly, Mary

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Pascal, Blaise

10.

In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Weil, Simone

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

Joubert, Joseph

12.

Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

13.

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

William Blake

14.

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

15.

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

16.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

17.

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

18.

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

Steinem, Gloria

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

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

Sara B. Cooper

22.

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

Paley, William

23.

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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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument -- their intellect -- which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

Strawson, Galen

25.

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

Flecker, James Elroy

26.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

27.

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

Cioran, E. M.

28.

Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

29.

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

30.

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

31.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

32.

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

33.

God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes

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God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Brooks, Thomas

35.

It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Thoreau, Henry David

36.

How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel

37.

Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

38.

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

Butterworth, Eric

39.

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

Albert Einstein

40.

It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.

Coder, S. Maxwell

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God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

42.

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

43.

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

44.

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

45.

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

46.

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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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John

48.

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

49.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

50.

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

Heraclitus