Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Hugh Elliott

Best Quotes about God

God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

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

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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

Albert Einstein

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

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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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

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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

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Daly, Mary

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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]

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Maclaren, Alexander

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The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Haggai, John

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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

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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 always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Sara B. Cooper

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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Connolly, Cyril

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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

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

Truett, George W.

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The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

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For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]

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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

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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.

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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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

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God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Butler, Samuel

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I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me.

Little, Paul

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If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Daly, Mary

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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

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

J. G. Holland

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

Macdonald, George

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

Augustine, St.

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

Walker, Alice

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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Tozer, A. W.

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument -- their intellect -- which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

Strawson, Galen