Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Joseph Chilton Pearce

Best Quotes about God

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

Albert Einstein

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

Sir Julian Huxley

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.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Heraclitus

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

Peck, William M.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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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

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To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

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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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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

Shakti Gawain

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

Joubert, Joseph

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Weil, Simone

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To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

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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

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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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 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

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Homer

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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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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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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

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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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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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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 infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes

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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 gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.