Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

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

Albert Einstein

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Albert Einstein

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O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

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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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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

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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 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.

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The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Proverb

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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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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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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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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel

28.

But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

Bible

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

Heraclitus

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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 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

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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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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Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

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Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen

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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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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

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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 gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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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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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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What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

Tozer, A. W.

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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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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.