Motivational Quotes

God

God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about God

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

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

Real Live Preacher

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Butterworth, Eric

God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

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

Joubert, Joseph

11.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

12.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

13.

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

Agathon

15.

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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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.

17.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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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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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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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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The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Cioran, E. M.

28.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Heraclitus

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God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

31.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

32.

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

33.

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

34.

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

35.

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

36.

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

Daly, Mary

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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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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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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice

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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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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]

Bible

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

43.

Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

Margaret Atwood

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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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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Hoffer, Eric

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Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Proverb

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I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Burroughs, William S.

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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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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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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