Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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 rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Wiesel, Elie

Freud, Sigmund

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

Heraclitus

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

Sir Julian Huxley

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

10.

The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

12.

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

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What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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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

16.

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

Butterworth, Eric

17.

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

Seneca

18.

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

19.

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

20.

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Herbert, George

21.

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

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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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Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Brenda Ueland

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

William Blake

28.

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.

29.

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.

30.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

31.

The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer

32.

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

Michael J. Fox

34.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

Albert Einstein

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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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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

40.

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

Webster, Daniel

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God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes

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If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

43.

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

Real Live Preacher

46.

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

47.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

49.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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.