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

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

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

If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

Tozer, A. W.

Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

Mairaux, Andre

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

Eckhart, Meister

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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.

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'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Simpson, A. B.

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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

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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

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

Law, William

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

Seneca

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In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Weil, Simone

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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

Truett, George W.

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

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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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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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Herbert, George

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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Paul, Jean

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

Augustine, St.

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Agathon

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Weil, Simone

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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

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The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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.

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

Tozer, A. W.

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If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

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You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

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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.