Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about God

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Voltaire

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

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

James Lileks

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

Herbert, George

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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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Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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

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

Agathon

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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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

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

Mairaux, Andre

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As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

19.

Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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

Heraclitus

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

Cotvos

23.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

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How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel

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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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Tillich, Paul

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

Real Live Preacher

33.

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

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God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Butterworth, Eric

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Truett, George W.

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

Shakti Gawain

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I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen

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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Cecil, Richard

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus