Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Agathon

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Saadi

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

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

If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

Newton, John

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Frost, Robert

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Eckhart, Meister

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We want God to come and save us. But he wonÆt. God doesnÆt stop levees from failing, he doesnÆt stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesnÆt stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant

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

Stowell, Joseph

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If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

Bunuel, Luis

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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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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We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Simpson, A. B.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Augustine, St.

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

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

Tozer, A. W.

30.

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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

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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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God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Weil, Simone

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God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Auden, W. H.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Albert Einstein

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O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

43.

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya

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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland