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

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

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

Voltaire

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Simpson, A. B.

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

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Luther, Martin

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

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

Minor White

11.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

12.

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

Aughey, John H.

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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

Homer

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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bai, Mira

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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

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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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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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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Hugh Elliott

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

35.

Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Daly, Mary

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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 the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Tillich, Paul

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I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Stone, Lucy

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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

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As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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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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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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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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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

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides