Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about God

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

Luther, Martin

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Williams, Tennessee

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

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]

Bible

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

Walker, Alice

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

11.

The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

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

13.

Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

14.

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

Plotinus

15.

God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

Bible

20.

And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

21.

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joubert, Joseph

22.

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

Macdonald, George

23.

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

Paley, William

24.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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

26.

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

27.

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Cecil, Richard

28.

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

Shakti Gawain

29.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Churchill, Winston

30.

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

31.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

32.

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

Real Live Preacher

33.

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

Einstein, Albert

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.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

36.

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

Brooks, Thomas

37.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

38.

I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

Simpson, A. B.

39.

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

40.

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

Mary Daly

41.

Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph De

42.

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

Webster, Daniel

43.

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

44.

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

45.

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

46.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

47.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

48.

Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

49.

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

50.

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