Motivational Quotes

God

Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about God

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

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

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

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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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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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People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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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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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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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 the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Einstein, Albert

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If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore

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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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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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It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.

Coder, S. Maxwell

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

Albert Einstein

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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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Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

Margaret Atwood

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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Sheen, Martin

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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]

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