Motivational Quotes

God

Man proposes, but God disposes.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about God

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

J. G. Holland

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.

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

Agathon

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

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

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

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

How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel

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

10.

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

Shakti Gawain

11.

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

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

12.

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

13.

'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

Anna Quindlen

15.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

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

17.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

18.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

19.

How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

20.

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

21.

God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

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

Brooks, Thomas

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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

24.

I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Sheen, Martin

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

Heraclitus

27.

At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

28.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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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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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

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

Tozer, A. W.

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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

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

Daly, Mary

40.

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

Flavius Josephus

41.

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

Jewish Proverb

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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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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

44.

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

45.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Luther, Martin

46.

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.

47.

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

48.

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

James Lileks

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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

50.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas