Motivational Quotes

God

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

- Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

Best Quotes about God

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

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

Homer

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.

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

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

Albert Einstein

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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Macdonald, George

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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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I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

Hollingdale, R. J.

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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

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God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? [Numbers 23:19]

Bible

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Sara B. Cooper

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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya

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I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Sheen, Martin

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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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Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

Mairaux, Andre

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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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EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. WeÆre looking for something, though weÆre not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preacher

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

Irv Kupcinet

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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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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

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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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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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We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Weil, Simone

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

Matthias

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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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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 subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

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

Cioran, E. M.