Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Daly, Mary

Best Quotes about God

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Proverb, Yiddish

And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12]

Bible

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

J. G. Holland

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 is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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

Real Live Preacher

10.

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

Hugh Elliott

11.

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

Butterworth, Eric

12.

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

Anna Quindlen

13.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

14.

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

15.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

16.

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

Cotvos

18.

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

19.

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

20.

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

Walker, Alice

21.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

22.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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

24.

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

Butterworth, Eric

25.

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

26.

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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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

31.

Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.

32.

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

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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

34.

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

Truett, George W.

35.

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

Minor White

36.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

37.

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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When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

40.

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

Eckhart, Meister

41.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

42.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Daly, Mary

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.

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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

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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

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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

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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

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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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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.