Motivational Quotes

God

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

- Joel S. Goldsmith

Best Quotes about God

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Bai, Mira

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

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

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

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

Heraclitus

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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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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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 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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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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Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Brenda Ueland

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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya

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

Augustine, St.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Hoffer, Eric

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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

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If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

Newton, John

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Shaw, George Bernard

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God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gulbranson, Gary

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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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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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IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

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There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

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God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? [Numbers 23:19]

Bible

43.

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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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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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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We want God to come and save us. But he wonÆt. God doesnÆt stop levees from failing, he doesnÆt stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesnÆt stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant

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

Tillich, Paul

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Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Daly, Mary

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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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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.