Motivational Quotes

God

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

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Best Quotes about God

Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. And thus I saw when we are all in peace and in love, we find no contrariness, nor no manner of letting through that contrariness which is now in us.

Norwich, Julian of

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

The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer

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

Simpson, A. B.

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

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

Albert Einstein

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

Picabia, Francis

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.

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

11.

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

Eckhart, Meister

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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Bai, Mira

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

Peck, William M.

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I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Wiesel, Elie

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God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Brooks, Thomas

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The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Luther, Martin

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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

Sir Julian Huxley

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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Tillich, Paul

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

Williams, Ted

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Webster, Daniel

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How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 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

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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

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

Proverb

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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Cecil, Richard

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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Seneca