Motivational Quotes

God

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about God

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Albert Einstein

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

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.

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

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

10.

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

11.

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

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

Tillich, Paul

14.

Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.

15.

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

Walker, Alice

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

Seneca

17.

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

Seneca

18.

We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

19.

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

20.

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

21.

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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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

23.

I think there's a god and I know it's not me.

Michael J. Fox

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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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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

26.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

27.

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

Augustine, St.

28.

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

Shakti Gawain

29.

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Anouilh, Jean

30.

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

31.

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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God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

33.

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

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

34.

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

Joubert, Joseph

35.

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

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There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

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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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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Butler, Samuel

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In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Weil, Simone

40.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

41.

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

Proverb

42.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

43.

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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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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Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

46.

Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

48.

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

49.

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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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