Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Stowell, Joseph

Best Quotes about God

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

Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

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]

Bible

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

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Proverb

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Law, William

10.

As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

11.

EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. WeÆre looking for something, though weÆre not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preacher

12.

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

13.

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

Michael J. Fox

14.

An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Tozer, A. W.

15.

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

16.

Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Butterworth, Eric

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

21.

We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

22.

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

23.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

24.

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.

25.

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

Anouilh, Jean

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

James Lileks

30.

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

31.

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

Augustine, St.

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

34.

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

35.

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

Layton, Irving

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

41.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

42.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

43.

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

Joubert, Joseph

44.

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

45.

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

46.

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

47.

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

48.

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

Eckhart, Meister

49.

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

50.

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

Chuck Palahniuk