Motivational Quotes

God

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

- Cioran, E. M.

Best Quotes about God

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Mary Daly

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Stone, Lucy

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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.

The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

Tozer, A. W.

Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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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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I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Tillich, Paul

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

Mairaux, Andre

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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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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

Williams, Ted

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Daly, Mary

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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

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

Frost, Robert

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

Tozer, A. W.

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice

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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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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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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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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

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

Albert Einstein

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

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

Herbert, George

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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