Motivational Quotes

God

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

- J. G. Holland

Best Quotes about God

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

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

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Flecker, James Elroy

The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Sheen, Martin

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

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Albert Einstein

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

Tillich, Paul

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

Sir Julian Huxley

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

Bai, Mira

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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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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

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If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore

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The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Haggai, John

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

Plotinus

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'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

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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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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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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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The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

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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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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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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 find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Macdonald, George

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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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.

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When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

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

Doris Egan

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

Williams, Ted

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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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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

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

Walker, Alice

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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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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

William Blake

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.