Motivational Quotes

God

For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]

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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

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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

Tillich, Paul

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Whitman, Walt

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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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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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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

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Shakti Gawain

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Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Macdonald, George

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Heraclitus

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

Williams, Ted

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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

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God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

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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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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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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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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

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If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian