Motivational Quotes

God

To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

- Truett, George W.

Best Quotes about God

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

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Proverb, Yiddish

10.

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

11.

I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

Hollingdale, R. J.

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God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

13.

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

15.

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

16.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

17.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

18.

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

Augustine, St.

19.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

21.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

23.

Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

24.

Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

Little, Paul

25.

God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gulbranson, Gary

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

27.

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

Heraclitus

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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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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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Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

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

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EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. WeÆre looking for something, though weÆre not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preacher

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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

39.

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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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ramdas, Swami

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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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If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

46.

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

47.

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

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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

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

Mary Daly