Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about God

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Voltaire

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel

We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

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

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

Hugh Elliott

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Maclaren, Alexander

10.

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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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

12.

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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

14.

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

Aughey, John H.

15.

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]

Bible

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Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

17.

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

18.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

19.

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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

Macdonald, George

21.

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

27.

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

28.

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

29.

The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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

Seneca

32.

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

33.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

34.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

35.

What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

Tozer, A. W.

36.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

38.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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]

Bible

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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

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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.

42.

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

Shakti Gawain

43.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

44.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

45.

If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent.

Qur'an

46.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich