Motivational Quotes

God

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

- Law, William

Best Quotes about God

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

Pascal, Blaise

God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Luther, Martin

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

Truett, George W.

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

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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

11.

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

Stowell, Joseph

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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Tozer, A. W.

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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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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Herbert, George

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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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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 has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

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Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

Mairaux, Andre

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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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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

25.

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

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

Peck, William M.

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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

29.

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

Albert Einstein

30.

You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Doris Egan

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Hugh Elliott

40.

For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]

Bible

41.

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

43.

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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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

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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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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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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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God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

49.

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