Motivational Quotes

God

God is clever, but not dishonest.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about God

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

Bataille, Georges

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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

Flavius Josephus

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

Seneca

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

Minor White

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

Matthias

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Simpson, A. B.

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In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Weil, Simone

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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]

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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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Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

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

Seneca

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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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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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

Albert Einstein

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To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

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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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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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Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Daly, Mary

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Daly, Mary

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

Tillich, Paul

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

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People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Flecker, James Elroy