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

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Thoreau, Henry David

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]

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

Tozer, A. W.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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]

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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

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

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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.

11.

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

Walker, Alice

12.

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

Webster, Daniel

13.

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

Daly, Mary

14.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Churchill, Winston

15.

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

17.

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

18.

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

19.

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

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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

21.

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

22.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

23.

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Eckhart, Meister

25.

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

Macdonald, George

28.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

29.

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.

30.

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

Michael J. Fox

31.

If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

32.

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

33.

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

35.

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

36.

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

37.

At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

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

Williams, Tennessee

40.

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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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

42.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

43.

If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Daly, Mary

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

Mairaux, Andre

45.

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

46.

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]

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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

48.

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

49.

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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Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus