Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

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

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

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

Shakti Gawain

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

God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

10.

I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Wiesel, Elie

11.

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Eckhart, Meister

12.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

13.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

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

Heraclitus

15.

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

16.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

17.

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

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

18.

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

19.

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

Webster, Daniel

20.

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

24.

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

Anna Quindlen

25.

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

Proverb

26.

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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.

God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

Mencken, H. L.

29.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

30.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

31.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

32.

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

Aughey, John H.

33.

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

34.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

35.

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

Sir Julian Huxley

36.

Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis

37.

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

38.

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

39.

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

40.

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

41.

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

42.

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

43.

What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

44.

I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

Flecker, James Elroy

46.

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

47.

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

Michael J. Fox

48.

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.

49.

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

Jewish Proverb