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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

Irv Kupcinet

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

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

Agathon

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Bai, Mira

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

Michael J. Fox

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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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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

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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

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Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis

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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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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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We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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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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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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 gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

29.

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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If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

Newton, John

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

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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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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Eckhart, Meister

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Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Macdonald, George

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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

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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

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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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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

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To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham