Motivational Quotes

God

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about God

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya

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

Mary Daly

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

Margaret Atwood

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

Irv Kupcinet

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

Voltaire

10.

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

Frost, Robert

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Butterworth, Eric

14.

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

Herbert, George

15.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

16.

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

Tillich, Paul

17.

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

Augustine, St.

18.

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

19.

When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen

20.

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

Heraclitus

21.

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

Mairaux, Andre

22.

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

23.

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

Agathon

24.

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

25.

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.

26.

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

27.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Maclaren, Alexander

31.

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

Stowell, Joseph

32.

God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes

33.

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

34.

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

35.

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

Tozer, A. W.

36.

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

Seneca

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Hugh Elliott

39.

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

40.

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

Brooks, Thomas

41.

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

Macdonald, George

42.

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

43.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

44.

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

James Lileks

45.

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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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Carter, Angela

47.

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

Williams, Ted

48.

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

Plotinus

49.

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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