Motivational Quotes

God

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

- Redgrave, Lynn

Best Quotes about God

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

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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

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

Walker, Alice

God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gulbranson, Gary

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

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Joubert, Joseph

10.

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

Beckett, Samuel

11.

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

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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

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Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

Matthias

14.

God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

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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

16.

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

Eckhart, Meister

17.

God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

18.

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

Law, William

19.

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

20.

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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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

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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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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

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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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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

26.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

27.

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

Steinem, Gloria

28.

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

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To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre

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

Macdonald, George

31.

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

Augustine, St.

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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

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

Frost, Robert

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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

35.

I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me.

Little, Paul

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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

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God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

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The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Haggai, John

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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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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

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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

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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

43.

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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

45.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

46.

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

J. G. Holland

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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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Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

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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]