Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

Cioran, E. M.

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.

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

God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Macdonald, George

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

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Herbert, George

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I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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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

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God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Brooks, Thomas

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

Eckhart, Meister

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God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Real Live Preacher

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

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Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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

Simpson, A. B.

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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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I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

Hollingdale, R. J.

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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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Weil, Simone

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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Carter, Angela

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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We want God to come and save us. But he wonÆt. God doesnÆt stop levees from failing, he doesnÆt stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesnÆt stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant

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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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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

William Blake

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

J. G. Holland

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

Albert Einstein

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I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Bai, Mira

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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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The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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