Motivational Quotes

God

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about God

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Walker, Alice

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

Steinem, Gloria

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.

10.

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

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

Tillich, Paul

12.

Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Albert Einstein

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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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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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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

18.

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

Brenda Ueland

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

20.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

21.

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

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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

25.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

26.

Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

31.

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya

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I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

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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

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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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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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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

37.

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

William Blake

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

Michael J. Fox

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Proverb

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

Eckhart, Meister

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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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God is clever, but not dishonest.