Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Cotvos

Best Quotes about God

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

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

God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Butterworth, Eric

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

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.

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Macdonald, George

What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Bai, Mira

10.

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

11.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

12.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

13.

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.

14.

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

Pascal, Blaise

15.

There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

16.

An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Tozer, A. W.

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Plotinus

19.

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

Joubert, Joseph

20.

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

21.

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

Brenda Ueland

22.

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya

23.

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

Flecker, James Elroy

24.

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

25.

The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

29.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

Sara B. Cooper

31.

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

Anna Quindlen

32.

You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Doris Egan

33.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

34.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

35.

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

Cioran, E. M.

36.

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

37.

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

Aughey, John H.

38.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

39.

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

40.

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

Walker, Alice

41.

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

Homer

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

44.

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.

45.

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

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.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.