Motivational Quotes

God

If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

- Tozer, A. W.

Best Quotes about God

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Daly, Mary

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

I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Sheen, Martin

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer

O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Webster, Daniel

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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Heraclitus

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For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Brookner, Anita

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Daly, Mary

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God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Auden, W. H.

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

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

Sir Julian Huxley

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

Williams, Ted

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Jewish Proverb

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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

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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 concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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

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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

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Plotinus

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It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Weil, Simone

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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

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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

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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Herbert, George

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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

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A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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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

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I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Burroughs, William S.

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn