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

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. And thus I saw when we are all in peace and in love, we find no contrariness, nor no manner of letting through that contrariness which is now in us.

Norwich, Julian of

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

Homer

10.

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 will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

12.

You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Doris Egan

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Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

Mairaux, Andre

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

Layton, Irving

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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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If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

Tozer, A. W.

17.

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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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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I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

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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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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

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Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

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

Proverb

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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

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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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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If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Daly, Mary

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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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 believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

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

Albert Einstein

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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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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 is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

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God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? [Numbers 23:19]

Bible

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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Montesquieu, Charles De