Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Albert Einstein

Best Quotes about God

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

People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

Bunuel, Luis

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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

God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

Williams, Ted

When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Weil, Simone

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The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Eckhart, Meister

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

12.

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.

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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

14.

God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

15.

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Agathon

16.

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

Seneca

17.

And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

Flecker, James Elroy

18.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

19.

If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

Tozer, A. W.

20.

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

21.

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

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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

23.

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

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

24.

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

Butterworth, Eric

25.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

26.

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Kempis, Thomas

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

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

32.

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

Daly, Mary

33.

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

35.

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Butler, Samuel

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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

38.

Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis

39.

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

Simpson, A. B.

40.

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

41.

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

42.

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

Bai, Mira

43.

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

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

William Blake

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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Hoffer, Eric

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A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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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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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

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In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Tozer, A. W.