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

Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

Matthias

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

Heraclitus

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

Stowell, Joseph

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

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

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Cotvos

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Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.

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Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Tillich, Paul

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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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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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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If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

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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

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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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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You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Doris Egan

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People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

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What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Webster, Daniel

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

Albert Einstein

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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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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Cioran, E. M.

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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

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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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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Brookner, Anita

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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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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 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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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.