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

God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

Plotinus

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

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Webster, Daniel

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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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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Hollingdale, R. J.

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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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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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Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ziglar, Zig

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Eckhart, Meister

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Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. And thus I saw when we are all in peace and in love, we find no contrariness, nor no manner of letting through that contrariness which is now in us.

Norwich, Julian of

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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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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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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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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Thoreau, Henry David

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

Williams, Ted

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

Flavius Josephus

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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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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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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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