Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.

Coder, S. Maxwell

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Walker, Alice

You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

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

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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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 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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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

Bataille, Georges

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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

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Butler, Samuel

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How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

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

Williams, Ted

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

Herbert, George

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Augustine, St.

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

Voltaire

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Bai, Mira

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

Mairaux, Andre

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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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If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

Tozer, A. W.

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

Jewish Proverb

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Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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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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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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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

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

Frost, Robert

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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

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

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Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Shakti Gawain

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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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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

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