Motivational Quotes

God

Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

- Francis Cardinal Spellman

Best Quotes about God

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.

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

Sir Julian Huxley

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Carter, Angela

Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

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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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To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre

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The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

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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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The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Haggai, John

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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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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Heraclitus

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

Aughey, John H.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Doris Egan

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb

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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

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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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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

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

Voltaire

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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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There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

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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

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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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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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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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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

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If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

Tozer, A. W.

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How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.