Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Eckhart, Meister

Best Quotes about God

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

Jewish Proverb

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Luther, Martin

We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Albert Einstein

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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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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 not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

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

Agathon

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Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

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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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And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

Flecker, James Elroy

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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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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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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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

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

William Blake

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

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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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The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Eckhart, Meister

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How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. 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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You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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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.

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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

Michael J. Fox

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IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

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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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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 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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And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12]

Bible

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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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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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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