Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Flecker, James Elroy

Best Quotes about God

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

Voltaire

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

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.

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

Heraclitus

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

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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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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Seneca

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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Agathon

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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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

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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

Williams, Ted

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

Tillich, Paul

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

Flavius Josephus

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

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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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Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

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

Simpson, A. B.

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

Augustine, St.

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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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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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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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

Mary Daly

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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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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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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis

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

Macdonald, George

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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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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 talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Doris Egan

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Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument -- their intellect -- which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

Strawson, Galen

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

Montesquieu, Charles De