Motivational Quotes

God

God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

- Tauler, Johannes

Best Quotes about God

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

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

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

Paul, Jean

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer

We want God to come and save us. But he wonÆt. God doesnÆt stop levees from failing, he doesnÆt stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesnÆt stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant

Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

Bunuel, Luis

10.

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

Mary Daly

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

14.

The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Ramakrishna, Sri

15.

To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

16.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

17.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

18.

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

Michael J. Fox

19.

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

Canetti, Elias

20.

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

Agathon

21.

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

22.

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

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

23.

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

24.

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

Irv Kupcinet

25.

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

26.

If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore

27.

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

28.

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

29.

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

Bible

30.

Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

31.

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

32.

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

33.

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

34.

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

35.

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

Albert Einstein

36.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

37.

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

38.

Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

39.

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

40.

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

Doris Egan

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

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

Plotinus

45.

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

46.

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

Ramdas, Swami

47.

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

48.

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

49.

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

Seneca

50.

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