Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Cotvos

Best Quotes about God

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]

Bible

The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Haggai, John

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

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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

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

Proverb

When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

10.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

11.

Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

12.

Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

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

Williams, Ted

14.

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Burroughs, William S.

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I think there's a god and I know it's not me.

Michael J. Fox

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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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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Churchill, Winston

18.

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Macdonald, George

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

Jewish Proverb

20.

I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

23.

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

Cotvos

24.

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

25.

We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

27.

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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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

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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

30.

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

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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument -- their intellect -- which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

Strawson, Galen

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

Walker, Alice

34.

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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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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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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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.

39.

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

Homer

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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

43.

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

44.

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

Heraclitus

45.

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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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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There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

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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

49.

God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

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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