Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Plotinus

Best Quotes about God

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

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

Einstein, Albert

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Flavius Josephus

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

Freud, Sigmund

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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument -- their intellect -- which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

Strawson, Galen

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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

12.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

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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

15.

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

16.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

18.

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

Heraclitus

19.

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

Shakti Gawain

20.

I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Bai, Mira

21.

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

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

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

Paley, William

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Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Daly, Mary

28.

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

29.

There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

30.

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

31.

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

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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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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

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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

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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

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You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Doris Egan

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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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Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

40.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

42.

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

Anna Quindlen

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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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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

46.

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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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

49.

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre

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