Motivational Quotes

God

The gods too are fond of a joke.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about God

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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

Chuck Palahniuk

God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Stowell, Joseph

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

Layton, Irving

I think there's a god and I know it's not me.

Michael J. Fox

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

Cotvos

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

Augustine, St.

11.

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

Herbert, George

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

13.

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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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

15.

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

16.

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

19.

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

Daly, Mary

21.

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

22.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

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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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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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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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Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

27.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

James Lileks

33.

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

34.

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

35.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

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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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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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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

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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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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

44.

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

Tozer, A. W.

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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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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

49.

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

Anna Quindlen

50.

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise