Motivational Quotes

God

He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about God

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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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.

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Mary Daly

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The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Brenda Ueland

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

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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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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 always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Minor White

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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.

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God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

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

Bai, Mira

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Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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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, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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

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This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Agathon

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

Heraclitus

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

William Blake

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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

Maclaren, Alexander