Motivational Quotes

God

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about God

The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

Tozer, A. W.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Daly, Mary

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

Butterworth, Eric

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore

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

Tillich, Paul

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

10.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

11.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

12.

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

13.

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

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

14.

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

Jewish Proverb

15.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

16.

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

17.

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

18.

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

Agathon

19.

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

20.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

21.

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

Cioran, E. M.

22.

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.

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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

24.

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Burroughs, William S.

25.

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

Irv Kupcinet

26.

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

27.

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

28.

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

29.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Brooks, Thomas

34.

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

35.

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

36.

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

37.

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

38.

Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

Matthias

39.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

40.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

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

42.

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

Augustine, St.

43.

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

44.

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

45.

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

Aughey, John H.

46.

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

Macdonald, George

47.

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

48.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.

Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. And thus I saw when we are all in peace and in love, we find no contrariness, nor no manner of letting through that contrariness which is now in us.

Norwich, Julian of

50.

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William