Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Flecker, James Elroy

Best Quotes about God

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

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

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

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

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

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Stone, Lucy

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

Plotinus

I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

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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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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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How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

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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 God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

18.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Augustine, St.

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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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 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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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Brookner, Anita

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

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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 is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Connolly, Cyril

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

Sara B. Cooper

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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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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen

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The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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.

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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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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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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We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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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I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Sheen, Martin

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Voltaire