Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

Layton, Irving

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.

God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Brenda Ueland

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

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

Law, William

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Shakti Gawain

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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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

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Williams, Ted

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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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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God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gulbranson, Gary

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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

Webster, Daniel

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

Albert Einstein

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

Seneca

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

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Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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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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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

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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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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]

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

Plotinus

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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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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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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.