Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

Best Quotes about God

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

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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]

Bible

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

10.

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]

Bible

11.

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

12.

I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Wiesel, Elie

13.

God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

14.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

15.

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

16.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

17.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

18.

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

19.

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

Frost, Robert

20.

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

Seneca

21.

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

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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

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

Brenda Ueland

24.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

25.

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

26.

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

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

Mary Daly

28.

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

29.

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

Butterworth, Eric

30.

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

31.

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

Joubert, Joseph

32.

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

Luther, Martin

33.

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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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.

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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

36.

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

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

Daly, Mary

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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

40.

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

Canetti, Elias

41.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

42.

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

Michael J. Fox

43.

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.

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

Tozer, A. W.

46.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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