Motivational Quotes

God

At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

- Albert Einstein

Best Quotes about God

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

William Blake

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

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

Macdonald, George

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

Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Mairaux, Andre

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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

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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

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Herbert, George

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

Cioran, E. M.

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

Simpson, A. B.

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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

Newton, John

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God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

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I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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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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I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Bai, Mira

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

Daly, Mary

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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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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

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

Proverb

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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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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.

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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.

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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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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

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I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Tillich, Paul

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If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

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

Webster, Daniel

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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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