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

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Augustine, St.

IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

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

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

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Carter, Angela

I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me.

Little, Paul

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Eckhart, Meister

I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Voltaire

11.

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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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Cecil, Richard

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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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If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

15.

Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph De

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Heraclitus

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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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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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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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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

22.

But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

Bible

23.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen

25.

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

Bai, Mira

26.

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

Williams, Tennessee

27.

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

28.

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

29.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

30.

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

31.

God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

32.

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

Shakti Gawain

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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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Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Proverb

35.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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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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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Macdonald, George

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Connolly, Cyril

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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

44.

And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

Flecker, James Elroy

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Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Butterworth, Eric

46.

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Seneca