Motivational Quotes

God

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

- Beckett, Samuel

Best Quotes about God

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

Flavius Josephus

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Peck, William M.

When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

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

Paley, William

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

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

James Lileks

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

If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

Tozer, A. W.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Tozer, A. W.

13.

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

14.

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

15.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

16.

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

17.

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

18.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

19.

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

Seneca

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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.

23.

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

Ramdas, Swami

24.

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.

25.

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

Hugh Elliott

26.

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

Irv Kupcinet

27.

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Butler, Samuel

28.

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

29.

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

30.

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

Michael J. Fox

31.

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

Webster, Daniel

32.

To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

33.

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

34.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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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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

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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

Beckett, Samuel

44.

Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph De

45.

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

46.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

47.

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

48.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

49.

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre

50.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas