Motivational Quotes

God

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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Best Quotes about God

Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

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

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

Law, William

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

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

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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

Simpson, A. B.

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

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

10.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Seneca

11.

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

Luther, Martin

12.

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

Daly, Mary

13.

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

Voltaire

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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Cecil, Richard

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God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Auden, W. H.

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

19.

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

Mairaux, Andre

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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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

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

23.

Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

25.

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Tillich, Paul

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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.

Sheen, Martin

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

Saadi

31.

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

35.

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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

Proverb

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You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Doris Egan

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

Tozer, A. W.

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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 find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Macdonald, George

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, 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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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya

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

Beckett, Samuel

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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