Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Mairaux, Andre

Best Quotes about God

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Seneca

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

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

Daly, Mary

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

Picasso, Pablo

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Stowell, Joseph

11.

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Connolly, Cyril

12.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

15.

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

Heraclitus

16.

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

17.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

18.

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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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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God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Brooks, Thomas

21.

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

22.

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

Eckhart, Meister

23.

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

24.

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

25.

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

26.

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

J. G. Holland

27.

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

Cotvos

28.

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

29.

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

Chuck Palahniuk

30.

Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

31.

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

Luther, Martin

32.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

33.

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

38.

Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.

39.

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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God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

Mencken, H. L.

41.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

42.

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]

Bible

43.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

44.

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

45.

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

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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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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

48.

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.

49.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

50.

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

W. Somerset Maugham