Motivational Quotes

God

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

- Indian Proverb

Best Quotes about God

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Stone, Lucy

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

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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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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

Simpson, A. B.

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Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

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

Doris Egan

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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Williams, Ted

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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.

Layton, Irving

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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.

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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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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Albert Einstein

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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

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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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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

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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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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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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 would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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 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

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

Brooks, Thomas

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We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Weil, Simone

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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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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 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

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God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce