Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Williams, Tennessee

Best Quotes about God

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

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

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

J. G. Holland

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

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

10.

And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

Flecker, James Elroy

11.

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

Butterworth, Eric

12.

If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore

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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

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People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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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

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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

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

18.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

19.

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

20.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

22.

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

Luther, Martin

23.

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

24.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

25.

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

Hugh Elliott

26.

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

27.

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

28.

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

29.

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

Bible

30.

Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

31.

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

Seneca

32.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

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

Tozer, A. W.

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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

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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

William Blake

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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

40.

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

Bai, Mira

41.

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

James Lileks

42.

Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Daly, Mary

43.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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

Picabia, Francis

45.

You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Doris Egan

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

Michael J. Fox

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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 hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

49.

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Tozer, A. W.