Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

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

Albert Einstein

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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

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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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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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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

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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

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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 not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

William Blake

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

Seneca

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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Doris Egan

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

Williams, Ted

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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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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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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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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12]

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

Bai, Mira

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

Jewish Proverb

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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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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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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument -- their intellect -- which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

Strawson, Galen

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Picabia, Francis

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