Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Irv Kupcinet

Best Quotes about God

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Agathon

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

Aughey, John H.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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

Anna Quindlen

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

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.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Law, William

12.

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

13.

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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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

15.

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

Layton, Irving

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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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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

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

Seneca

19.

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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God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

21.

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

22.

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

Hugh Elliott

23.

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

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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.

25.

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

Real Live Preacher

26.

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

William Blake

27.

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

28.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

29.

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

30.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

31.

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

32.

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

Butterworth, Eric

33.

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

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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

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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

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

Proverb

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

40.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

42.

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

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

44.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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

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

Williams, Tennessee

47.

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

48.

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

49.

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

Michael J. Fox

50.

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