Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

Best Quotes about God

Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Butterworth, Eric

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Voltaire

Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Stone, Lucy

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Tozer, A. W.

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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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

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We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

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

Layton, Irving

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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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Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

Flavius Josephus

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

Albert Einstein

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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

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

Paul, Jean

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I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Wiesel, Elie

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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

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God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

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

Anna Quindlen

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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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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

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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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I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Tillich, Paul

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The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Luther, Martin

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

Frost, Robert

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

Irv Kupcinet

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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

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

Bible

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Michael J. Fox