Motivational Quotes

God

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

- Butterworth, Eric

Best Quotes about God

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

J. G. Holland

Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

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

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Tozer, A. W.

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God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

11.

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

Daly, Mary

12.

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

13.

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

Michael J. Fox

14.

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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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joubert, Joseph

16.

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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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.

18.

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

19.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

20.

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

21.

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

Homer

22.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

23.

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.

24.

Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

25.

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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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.

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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

28.

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

29.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

30.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

31.

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

32.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

33.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

34.

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

35.

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

Sara B. Cooper

36.

I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me.

Little, Paul

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

Beckett, Samuel

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Butterworth, Eric

41.

I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

Simpson, A. B.

42.

If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore

43.

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

Minor White

44.

Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

Matthias

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

Herbert, George

46.

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

47.

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

48.

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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God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gulbranson, Gary

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

Seneca