Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

Bataille, Georges

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

I think there's a god and I know it's not me.

Michael J. Fox

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen

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

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

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

Minor White

10.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

11.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

Picasso, Pablo

12.

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

13.

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

Williams, Tennessee

14.

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Eckhart, Meister

15.

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

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

17.

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

18.

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

Macdonald, George

19.

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

20.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

21.

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

22.

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

23.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

24.

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.

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

Butterworth, Eric

26.

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

27.

When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen

28.

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

29.

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

Tillich, Paul

30.

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

Bai, Mira

31.

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

32.

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

33.

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

Shakti Gawain

34.

If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

Newton, John

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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.

36.

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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God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes

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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Flavius Josephus

40.

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

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The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Ramakrishna, Sri

42.

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre

43.

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

Proverb

44.

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

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

Aughey, John H.

46.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

47.

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

48.

We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Weil, Simone

49.

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

Doris Egan

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

Seneca