Motivational Quotes

God

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about God

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

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

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

Minor White

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

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

10.

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

Frost, Robert

11.

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

12.

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

Einstein, Albert

13.

Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

Little, Paul

14.

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

15.

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

16.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

17.

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

18.

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

19.

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

Walker, Alice

20.

Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

21.

Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

22.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

23.

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

24.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

25.

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

26.

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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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

28.

And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

29.

The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Eckhart, Meister

30.

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

31.

We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

32.

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

33.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

38.

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Agathon

39.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

40.

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

Paley, William

41.

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

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

Anna Quindlen

43.

Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

Mairaux, Andre

44.

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

45.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

46.

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

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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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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

49.

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

J. G. Holland