Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

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

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.

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

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

Simpson, A. B.

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

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

10.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

11.

In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Whitman, Walt

12.

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

13.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

14.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

15.

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

16.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

17.

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

Steinem, Gloria

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Doris Egan

20.

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Tillich, Paul

21.

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Brookner, Anita

22.

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

Einstein, Albert

23.

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

24.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

25.

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

26.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

27.

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

Pascal, Blaise

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Heraclitus

31.

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

32.

When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

33.

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

Chuck Palahniuk

34.

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Anouilh, Jean

35.

I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

Lawrence, D. H.

36.

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

37.

An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Tozer, A. W.

38.

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

39.

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

Daly, Mary

40.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

41.

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

42.

What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

Tozer, A. W.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Stowell, Joseph

47.

I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

Hollingdale, R. J.

48.

When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

49.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

50.

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich