Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Chuck Palahniuk

Best Quotes about God

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

Bible

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Kempis, Thomas

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

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

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

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

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

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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

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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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.

14.

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

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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

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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.

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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

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

J. G. Holland

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If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

22.

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

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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 history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Cecil, Richard

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

Saadi

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

Tillich, Paul

28.

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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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Voltaire

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Luther, Martin

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Minor White

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

Williams, Tennessee

42.

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

Brenda Ueland

43.

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

Frost, Robert

44.

It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Cotvos

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

Seneca

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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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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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.

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