Motivational Quotes

God

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

- Beckett, Samuel

Best Quotes about God

You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

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

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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

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

Truett, George W.

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

Hugh Elliott

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.

God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

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

Anna Quindlen

10.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

11.

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

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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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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

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

Walker, Alice

18.

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

Tillich, Paul

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When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher

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

Irv Kupcinet

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

Bai, Mira

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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, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Stone, Lucy

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

Flavius Josephus

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God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

29.

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

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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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

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God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Brooks, Thomas

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God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

Mencken, H. L.

35.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

Proverb

40.

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

J. G. Holland

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

Seneca

42.

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

43.

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

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

Layton, Irving

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

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

Heraclitus

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With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich