Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice

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

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

Homer

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

People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Flavius Josephus

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

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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

11.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

12.

If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

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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

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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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As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

Doris Egan

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

Bai, Mira

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

Simpson, A. B.

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Mary Daly

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

Macdonald, George

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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Minor White

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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

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Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

36.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

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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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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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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

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

Agathon

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

Augustine, St.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.