Motivational Quotes

God

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

- Barney, Natalie Clifford

Best Quotes about God

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

Doris Egan

If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent.

Qur'an

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

James Lileks

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

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

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

Brenda Ueland

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

William Blake

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

Hugh Elliott

10.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

11.

He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

Kempis, Thomas

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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

Flecker, James Elroy

15.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

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

17.

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

18.

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

19.

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

20.

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

Seneca

21.

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

22.

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

23.

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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

25.

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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It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.

Coder, S. Maxwell

27.

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

28.

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

29.

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

Peck, William M.

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

J. G. Holland

36.

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

Minor White

37.

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

Anna Quindlen

38.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

39.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

40.

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

41.

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

42.

The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer

43.

Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

44.

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

45.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bible

48.

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.

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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

50.

In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Whitman, Walt