Motivational Quotes

God

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

- Brooks, Thomas

Best Quotes about God

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.

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Heraclitus

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Agathon

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

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

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

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Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen

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

Hugh Elliott

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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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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joubert, Joseph

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O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

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

Walker, Alice

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Seneca

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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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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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Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Flavius Josephus

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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We want God to come and save us. But he wonÆt. God doesnÆt stop levees from failing, he doesnÆt stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesnÆt stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant

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

J. G. Holland

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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

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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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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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Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Minor White

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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

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People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm