Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Doris Egan

Best Quotes about God

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.

Coder, S. Maxwell

Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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.

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

Seneca

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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]

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He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

Kempis, Thomas

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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me.

Little, Paul

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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]

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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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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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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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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 has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

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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

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Heraclitus

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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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

Mary Daly

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

Tozer, A. W.

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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

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

Simpson, A. B.

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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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

Agathon

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

Doris Egan

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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