Motivational Quotes

God

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

- Cleaver, Eldridge

Best Quotes about God

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

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

Margaret Atwood

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

Truett, George W.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

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.

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

Luther, Martin

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

10.

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

Williams, Tennessee

11.

In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Whitman, Walt

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

Homer

14.

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

Anna Quindlen

15.

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Eckhart, Meister

16.

IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

17.

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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I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

La Bruyere, Jean De

19.

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

Seneca

20.

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

21.

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

Augustine, St.

22.

Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his 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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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

25.

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

Bible

26.

The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

Freud, Sigmund

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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

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People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

30.

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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

Einstein, Albert

32.

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

33.

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

Ramdas, Swami

34.

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Flecker, James Elroy

40.

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

41.

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

Aughey, John H.

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

Hugh Elliott

44.

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.

45.

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

Proverb

46.

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

47.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

48.

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

49.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm