Motivational Quotes

God

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

- Flavius Josephus

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

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

I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Augustine, St.

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

Shakti Gawain

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

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

10.

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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When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

12.

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

Hugh Elliott

13.

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

14.

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.

15.

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

Eckhart, Meister

16.

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

17.

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

18.

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Anouilh, Jean

19.

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.

20.

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

Bai, Mira

21.

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

22.

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

Truett, George W.

23.

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

24.

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

Real Live Preacher

25.

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

26.

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

27.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

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

Albert Einstein

29.

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

33.

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

34.

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

35.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

36.

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

Tillich, Paul

37.

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

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte 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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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

40.

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

41.

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Brooks, Thomas

42.

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

43.

Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

44.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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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

47.

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

48.

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

Layton, Irving

49.

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

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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.

Real Live Preacher