Motivational Quotes

God

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.

Best Quotes about God

We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Albert Einstein

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

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

We want God to come and save us. But he wonÆt. God doesnÆt stop levees from failing, he doesnÆt stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesnÆt stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant

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

Bai, Mira

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

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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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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If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

Newton, John

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Webster, Daniel

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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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God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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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 want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

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

Williams, Ted

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

Heraclitus

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Daly, Mary

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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Seneca

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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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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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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We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

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It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.

Coder, S. Maxwell

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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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The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Luther, Martin

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Homer

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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.