Motivational Quotes

God

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

- Bataille, Georges

Best Quotes about God

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Frost, Robert

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bai, Mira

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

Eckhart, Meister

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.

God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.

Coder, S. Maxwell

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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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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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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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Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gulbranson, Gary

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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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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.

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

Herbert, George

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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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The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

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Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

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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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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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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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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

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You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

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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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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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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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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

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If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent.

Qur'an

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

Luther, Martin

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

Seneca

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It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Butterworth, Eric

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If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Daly, Mary

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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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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Simpson, A. B.

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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