Motivational Quotes

God

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.

Best Quotes about God

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

Agathon

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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

Brenda Ueland

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

Bible

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Homer

10.

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

Michael J. Fox

11.

'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Shakti Gawain

13.

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

14.

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

15.

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

16.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

17.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

18.

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

Anouilh, Jean

19.

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

James Lileks

20.

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

Eckhart, Meister

21.

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

Plotinus

22.

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

23.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

24.

If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

Newton, John

25.

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

Real Live Preacher

26.

Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

27.

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

28.

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

29.

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

Jewish Proverb

30.

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

Walker, Alice

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Frost, Robert

34.

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

35.

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

36.

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

37.

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? [Numbers 23:19]

Bible

38.

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

Brooks, Thomas

39.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

40.

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

Augustine, St.

41.

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

42.

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

Doris Egan

43.

What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

44.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

45.

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

46.

If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent.

Qur'an

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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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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

49.

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

Mary Daly

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.