Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Daly, Mary

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

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

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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

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

Butterworth, Eric

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People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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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

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

Tillich, Paul

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Paul, Jean

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

Layton, Irving

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If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore

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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

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There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Williams, Ted

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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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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

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Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Maclaren, Alexander

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Churchill, Winston

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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.

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Bai, Mira

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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

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

Michael J. Fox

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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

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To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

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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 God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

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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

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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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God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Eckhart, Meister