Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Macdonald, George

Best Quotes about God

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

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

Stowell, Joseph

Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

Mairaux, Andre

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

Proverb

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

Albert Einstein

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Canetti, Elias

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Stone, Lucy

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

10.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

11.

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

12.

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

Irv Kupcinet

13.

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

Mary Daly

14.

Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

Little, Paul

15.

People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

16.

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

17.

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

18.

God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

19.

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

20.

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

Seneca

21.

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.

22.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

23.

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

24.

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

25.

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

26.

God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Auden, W. H.

27.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

28.

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

29.

If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

Newton, John

30.

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

31.

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

Michael J. Fox

32.

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

33.

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

34.

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Herbert, George

35.

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

36.

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

Flavius Josephus

37.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

38.

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

39.

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

Agathon

40.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

41.

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

Butterworth, Eric

42.

Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

43.

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

Frost, Robert

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.

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

Paley, William

46.

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

Anna Quindlen

47.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Butterworth, Eric

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

50.

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

Macdonald, George