Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Anna Quindlen

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

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

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

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Tozer, A. W.

What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen

10.

The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer

11.

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

Eckhart, Meister

12.

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

J. G. Holland

13.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

14.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

15.

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

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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

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Eckhart, Meister

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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

21.

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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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

23.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

W. Somerset Maugham

25.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis

27.

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

Proverb

28.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice

29.

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

30.

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

Herbert, George

31.

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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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

33.

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

34.

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

Chuck Palahniuk

35.

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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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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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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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

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

42.

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

Tillich, Paul

43.

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb

44.

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

45.

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

Cotvos

47.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Churchill, Winston

48.

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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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Carter, Angela

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

Heraclitus