Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about God

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

Peck, William M.

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

Daly, Mary

He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

Kempis, Thomas

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Frost, Robert

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

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Sir Julian Huxley

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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

11.

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

Augustine, St.

12.

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]

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13.

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

14.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

15.

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

Paley, William

16.

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Eckhart, Meister

17.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

22.

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

Hugh Elliott

23.

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

24.

And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

Flecker, James Elroy

25.

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

26.

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

27.

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

28.

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.

29.

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

Anna Quindlen

30.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

31.

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

Seneca

32.

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

33.

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

34.

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

35.

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

36.

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

Heraclitus

37.

But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

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38.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

39.

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

40.

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

41.

We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Tillich, Paul

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

48.

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]

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49.

Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

50.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides