Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about God

Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

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

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Mary Daly

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

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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

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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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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 want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

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

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

Minor White

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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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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 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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Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Seneca

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

Augustine, St.

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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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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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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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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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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Peck, William M.

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

Hugh Elliott

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

Brenda Ueland

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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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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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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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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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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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

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