Motivational Quotes

God

God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about God

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.

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

Albert Einstein

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Stone, Lucy

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

Seneca

Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

Margaret Atwood

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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 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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I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Butterworth, Eric

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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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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What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

Tozer, A. W.

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To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

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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

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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Connolly, Cyril

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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.

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Augustine, St.

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

Macdonald, George

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We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

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The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

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Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Eckhart, Meister

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I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

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

Homer

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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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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

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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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'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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

Agathon

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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 always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!