Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about God

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

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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

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

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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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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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

13.

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

Brenda Ueland

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

15.

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

Shakti Gawain

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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

17.

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

18.

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

Daly, Mary

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

Herbert, George

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

21.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Augustine, St.

22.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Agathon

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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]

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

Mary Daly

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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]

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

Heraclitus

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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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In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Weil, Simone

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John

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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

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

Mairaux, Andre

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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.

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

37.

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

38.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

40.

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

Aughey, John H.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Carter, Angela

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The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer

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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

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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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gulbranson, Gary

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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

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