Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about God

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

Mairaux, Andre

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

Proverb

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

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? [Numbers 23:19]

Bible

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

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

Webster, Daniel

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God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

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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

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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Tozer, A. W.

17.

Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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

Voltaire

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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]

Bible

22.

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Michael J. Fox

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

Bible

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People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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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

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

Eckhart, Meister

31.

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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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John

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Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

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EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. WeÆre looking for something, though weÆre not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preacher

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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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Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Heraclitus

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I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Bai, Mira

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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Herbert, George

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

Picasso, Pablo

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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 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.

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God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

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

Mary Daly

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert