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

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

How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel

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

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.

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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.

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb

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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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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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Thoreau, Henry David

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To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Simpson, A. B.

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

Seneca

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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ziglar, Zig

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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

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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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God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Seneca

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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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Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

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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

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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

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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Daly, Mary

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

Saadi

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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 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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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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

Heraclitus

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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

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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Brookner, Anita

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

Proverb

39.

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

Picabia, Francis

40.

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

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Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Agathon

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

William Blake

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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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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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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle