Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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.

While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

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

Voltaire

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

Mary Daly

10.

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

11.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

12.

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

Williams, Ted

13.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

14.

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

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

Doris Egan

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

Seneca

18.

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

19.

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Weil, Simone

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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

21.

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

22.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

23.

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

William Blake

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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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EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. WeÆre looking for something, though weÆre not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preacher

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The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Tozer, A. W.

30.

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

Webster, Daniel

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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gulbranson, Gary

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The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

Tozer, A. W.

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I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Minor White

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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'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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Agathon

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A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

42.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

43.

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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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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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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God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer