100 God Quotes To Uplift Your Heart And Mind

Top 10 Quotes – Short – Famous – Life – Love – Deep – Takeaways – Further Readings

Here are 100 of the best god quotes you’ll ever find.

They are mind-blowing.

You’ll find amazing authors like:

• Voltaire
• Carl Jung
• Marcus Aurelius
• Deepak Chopra
• Maya Angelou
• Alan Watts
• Einstein
• And many more

And you’ll discover profound and thought-provoking quotes about god that you’ve never seen before.

That’s why I come back here often and read them again.

And again.

And again.

And I hope you’ll love them as much as I do.

Enjoy!

Top 10 God Quotes

Make God your only boss. Naval Ravikant

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun. Alan Watts

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. Voltaire

If the gods have made decisions about me and the things that happen to me, then they were good decisions. Marcus Aurelius

How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak. St. John Vianney

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Follow God, get fit, save in bitcoin, look after your family, and enjoy your life. You’ll be in the 0.1%. Zuby

A prayer is a request made from a small part of God to a large part of God. Deepak Chopra

Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God. Maya Angelou

Knowing the Self, God is known. Ramana Maharshi

Short God Quotes

Those who want fewest things are nearest to the Gods. Socrates

God always takes the simplest way. Albert Einstein

A man is a god in ruins. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish. Albert Einstein

All addictions are a low level search for God. Carl Jung

I asked God for flowers and he gave me rain. Unknown

Stress is worshipping false gods. Unknown

Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue. Ralph Waldo Emerson (Nature, Essay)

Modern man can’t see God because he doesn’t look low enough. Carl Jung

God smiles on underdogs. Lulu Cheng Meservey

All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you. Joseph Campbell

God enters by a private door into every individual. Ralph Waldo Emerson

God is the limitless being which accepts only truth. Matthew Arnold

God planted something powerful in you. Water it daily. Unknown

Famous God Quotes

God is subtle but he is not malicious. Albert Einstein

When the solution is simple, God is answering. Albert Einstein

God created war so that Americans would learn geography. Mark Twain

Man was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired. Mark Twain

A person can please God only with the godliness of his life. If an outwardly faithful person is not good, clear, and humble in his life, then he presents a big lie, he serves God falsely. Immanuel Kant

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous. Albert Einstein

Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight. Maya Angelou

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation. Maya Angelou

If you ask for support from God, then you will learn how to find it in yourself. He does not change us, but we change ourselves by getting closer to Him. All ask from Him, as if He should help us, but in the end we give these things to ourselves. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We are never defeated unless we give up on God. Ronald Reagan

You relax on a bus not knowing the driver. You relax on a plane not knowing the pilot. Why not relax in life knowing God is in control? Scottie Pippen

Black holes are where God divided by zero. Albert Einstein

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. Mahatma Gandhi

Man takes pride in thinking he was the first to invent gods. Arthur Schopenhauer

God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent. Albert Einstein

Though I am now an old fogey, I am still hard at work and still refuse to believe that God plays dice. Albert Einstein

When I am judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way. Albert Einstein

God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us – in the dreariest and most dreaded moments – can see a possibility of hope. Maya Angelou

God Quotes About Life, Life Lessons

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary. Lou Holtz

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right. Cato The Elder

You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both. Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity. Mahatma Gandhi

When trouble comes, think of yourself as a wrestler whom God, like a trainer, has paired with a tough young buck. For what purpose? To turn you into Olympic-class material. Epictetus

There is only one way to be humble: do not think about yourself, but about how you can serve God and others. Leo Tolstoy

The more closely a person follows his intellect and controls his passions, the closer he comes to spiritual life, to love of God and of his neighbor. Leo Tolstoy

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. Bill Keane

Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams. Ben Carson

When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way. Paulo Coelho

We should do only one thing: give ourselves into the hands of God, whatever our ultimate fate. Allow that which should happen to happen. What will happen will be good. Henry Amiel

In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection. Plato

When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Strenuous intellectual work and looking at God’s nature are the reconciling, fortifying, yet relentlessly strict angels that shall lead me through all of life’s troubles. Albert Einstein

The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The will of God for us is to live in happiness and to take an interest in the lives of others. John Ruskin

We have so little control of the world around us, so many inexplicable events created this world, that it works out almost exactly the same way as if there was a god. Ryan Holiday

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. Oswald Chambers (Prayer: A Holy Occupation)

The most difficult thing in the world, it seems to me, is to realize that I am a child of God; to keep that in my mind all the time. Maya Angelou

God lives in every one of us. When a person remembers this, the thought of it can save him from evil, and help him to do good. Leo Tolstoy

If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons. Marcus Aurelius

There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind. Ramana Maharshi

Health lies in action, and so it graces youth. To be busy is the secret of grace, and half the secret of content. Let us ask the gods not for possessions, but for things to do; happiness is in making things rather than in consuming them. Will Durant

Creativity is God’s gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God. Julia Cameron

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. Rudyard Kipling

God Quotes About Love

He who is filled with love is filled with God himself. Saint Augustine

To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be. Fyodor Dostoevsky

If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.” Byron Katie

And God said “Love your enemy,” and I obeyed him and loved myself. Khalil Gibran

You should love only one thing in yourself, that which is the same in all of us. In loving that which is the same in all of us, you love God. Leo Tolstoy

A woman‘s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her. Maya Angelou

People live by love: love of yourself is the beginning of death; love of other people and of God is the beginning of life. I John, from Chapter 4

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God. Victor Hugo

You ask me, what the most important feature of Christ’s character was. I will answer you: it was his confidence in the greatness of the human soul. He saw in a person the reflection of God’s image, and, therefore, he loved everyone, whoever a person was, without regard to his life or character. William Ellery Channing

To all of the men watching around the world, accept Charlie’s challenge, and embrace true manhood. Be strong and courageous for your families. Love your wives and lead them. Love your children and protect them. Be the spiritual head of your home. But please be a leader worth following. Your wife is not your servant. Your wife is not your employee. Your wife is not your slave. She is your helper. You are not rivals. You are one flesh working together for the glory of god. Erika Kirk

By love I don’t mean indulgence. I do not mean sentimentality. And in this instance, I don’t even mean romance. I mean that condition that allowed humans to dream of God. That condition that allowed the “dumb” to write spirituals and Russian songs and Irish lilts. That is love, and it’s so much larger than anything I can conceive. Maya Angelou

God is love. And he who lives in love, lives in God, and God lives in him. If we love one another, God lives in us. I John, from Chapter 4

Equality cannot be reached, as some people think, only by civil measures. It can be reached only by love of God and people, and this love can be reached, not by civil measures, but only as the result of spiritual learning. Leo TolstoyHumankind goes on without stopping. This movement forward is necessary for you as an individual as well. If you want to serve God, you should be a worker for the spiritual progress of humanity. Leo Tolstoy

Deep God Quotes

Respect the gods, without relying on their help. Miyamoto Musashi

By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself. Rumi

What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die. Søren Kierkegaard

Think of your many years of procrastination; how the gods have repeatedly granted you further periods of grace, of which you have taken no advantage. Marcus Aurelius

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars. Elbert Hubbard

There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men. Aldous Huxley

Those people who ask where God is are crazy; God is everywhere, in all of nature and in the soul of each person. There are many different religions, but there is only one God. If a person cannot understand himself, how can he understand God? Indian wisdom

God tests everyone, one with wealth, another with poverty. A rich man is tested in whether he would extend an arm of support to those who need it; a poor man in whether he would bear all his sufferings without discontent and with obedience. The Talmud

When I am in difficult circumstances, I ask God to help me. But it is my duty to serve the Lord, and not His to serve me. As soon as I remember this, my burden becomes lighter. John Ruskin

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world. C.S. Lewis

God alone is satisfied with what He is and can proclaim: “I am what I am.” Unlike God, man strives with all his might to be what he is not. He incessantly proclaims: “I am what I am not.” Eric Hoffer

Beware of everything which puts an obstacle between you and God. Leo Tolstoy

For God’s sake, stop honouring externals, quit turning yourself into the tool of mere matter, or of people who can supply you or deny you those material things. Marcus Aurelius

But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pure perfection can be found only in God; one’s life consists of becoming closer to God. And when a person knows that good is good and that evil is evil, then he or she gets closer to good, and moves farther from evil. Confucius

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. Albert Einstein

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind, while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. Dr. E.O. Wilson

In a word, if there is a god, all is well; and if chance rules, do not also be governed by it. Marcus Aurelius

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. Albert Einstein

People are free to believe in gods if they find it helpful, but there is no need for gods in order to live a good life. Yuval Noah Harari

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better. André Gide

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world. Albert Einstein

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Conclusion

View the sunrise, thank God for another day living and then go get meaningful things done. Andrew Huberman (Source)

Key Takeaways

• Don’t be too serious. “Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.” Pro tip: It’s fine to be serious about God. But life is easier when you take it lightly.
• Be silent. “How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.” Pro tip: It’s hard to find answers when you talk. It’s easier when you’re silent.
• God is everywhere. “Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.” Pro tip: There are many tempting paths. But don’t get distracted. Start with the closest path – the one in yourself.
• Keep it simple. “Those who want fewest things are nearest to the Gods.” Pro tip: Keep in mind: true fulfillment is not material, it’s spiritual.
• Do the right thing. “Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.” Pro tip: When you keep God in mind, you let your ego aside and do the right thing. Keep doing that.

Further Readings

• Topic: Life
• 77 Life Lessons Quotes (To Learn And Grow)
• 63 Meaning Of Life Quotes
• 91 Of The Best Stoic Quotes (For A Better Life)

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