Motivational Quotes

God

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about God

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

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

Simpson, A. B.

Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

Frost, Robert

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

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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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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.

11.

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

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

Seneca

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

William Blake

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

19.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

22.

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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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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As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Augustine, St.

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

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A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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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

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. WeÆre looking for something, though weÆre not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preacher

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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 is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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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.

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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