Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

Margaret Atwood

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Brookner, Anita

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

Stowell, Joseph

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

Anna Quindlen

When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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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.

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God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

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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

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Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen

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I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

18.

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

19.

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

Tillich, Paul

20.

If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent.

Qur'an

21.

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

Sara B. Cooper

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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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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

25.

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

Paley, William

27.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

28.

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

29.

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

30.

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Burroughs, William S.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Mary Daly

33.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

35.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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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

39.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

Little, Paul

42.

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

Frost, Robert

43.

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

Luther, Martin

44.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

45.

Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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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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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

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