Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Doris Egan

Best Quotes about God

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Albert Einstein

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

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

Shakti Gawain

God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

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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

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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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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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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

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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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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Eckhart, Meister

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The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Luther, Martin

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

Agathon

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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

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God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gulbranson, Gary

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

Michael J. Fox

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Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

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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 is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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.

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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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If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

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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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What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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 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.

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If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent.

Qur'an

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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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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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

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

Tillich, Paul