Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Homer

Best Quotes about God

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

Augustine, St.

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

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

Doris Egan

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

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

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Brooks, Thomas

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

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Churchill, Winston

10.

The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John

11.

And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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.

13.

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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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

Simpson, A. B.

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With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Wiesel, Elie

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Cotvos

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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 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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Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

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

Saadi

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

Joubert, Joseph

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

35.

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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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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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.

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument -- their intellect -- which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

Strawson, Galen

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

Michael J. Fox

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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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 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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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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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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There is no God but God.

Koran, The