Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Canetti, Elias

Best Quotes about God

Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Haggai, John

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

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

Luther, Martin

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

Einstein, Albert

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

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

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Hoffer, Eric

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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

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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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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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Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

Bible

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

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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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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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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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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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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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Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

Little, Paul

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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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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Brooks, Thomas

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Albert Einstein

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The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Homer

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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Herbert, George

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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 would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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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.