Motivational Quotes

God

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

- Albert Einstein

Best Quotes about God

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

Mairaux, Andre

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

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

How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Michael J. Fox

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

10.

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Brookner, Anita

11.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

12.

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

Irv Kupcinet

13.

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

14.

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

15.

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

16.

I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

Lawrence, D. H.

17.

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

William Blake

18.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

19.

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

20.

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Tillich, Paul

21.

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

22.

If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

Bunuel, Luis

23.

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

Picabia, Francis

24.

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

Bai, Mira

25.

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

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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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

31.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Seneca

32.

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

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

Voltaire

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Herbert, George

37.

God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

38.

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

39.

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

40.

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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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

42.

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

Augustine, St.

43.

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

Jewish Proverb

44.

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

45.

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

46.

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

James Lileks

47.

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

48.

Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Proverb

49.

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

50.

Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen