Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. And thus I saw when we are all in peace and in love, we find no contrariness, nor no manner of letting through that contrariness which is now in us.

Norwich, Julian of

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

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

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Butterworth, Eric

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

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

Tillich, Paul

The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Luther, Martin

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

Tozer, A. W.

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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

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

Flavius Josephus

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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 fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

Irv Kupcinet

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

Albert Einstein

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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]

Bible

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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

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

Saadi

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

Brenda Ueland

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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

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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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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Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.

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If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

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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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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Stowell, Joseph

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

Butterworth, Eric

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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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

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Proverb

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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.

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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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

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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

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God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Butterworth, Eric

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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 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

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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.