Motivational Quotes

God

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

- Beckett, Samuel

Best Quotes about God

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

Proverb

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

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

Voltaire

Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

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

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

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

Macdonald, George

God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

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.

10.

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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Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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

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

Agathon

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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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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

J. G. Holland

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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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

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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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

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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

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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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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We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Weil, Simone

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

31.

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

Minor White

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Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Daly, Mary

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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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God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes

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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Luther, Martin

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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

Hugh Elliott

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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

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

Webster, Daniel