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

Cioran, E. M.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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.

While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Augustine, St.

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

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.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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

Picabia, Francis

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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

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When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

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

Seneca

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

William Blake

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

Saadi

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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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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Tillich, Paul

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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

Proverb

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When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent.

Qur'an

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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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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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

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

Eckhart, Meister

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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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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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When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

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

Michael J. Fox

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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.

Little, Paul

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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.