Motivational Quotes

God

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

- Breton, Andre

Best Quotes about God

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

Tozer, A. W.

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Burroughs, William S.

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

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

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

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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

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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 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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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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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 God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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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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Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

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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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Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

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

Simpson, A. B.

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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Churchill, Winston

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

Paley, William

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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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If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mairaux, Andre

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God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

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When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Seneca

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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

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

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

Peck, William M.

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

James Lileks