Motivational Quotes

God

God is only a great imaginative experience.

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about God

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Tillich, Paul

It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.

Coder, S. Maxwell

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Luther, Martin

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

I think there's a god and I know it's not me.

Michael J. Fox

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

Mairaux, Andre

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Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

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

Albert Einstein

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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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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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

Williams, Ted

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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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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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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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I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Burroughs, William S.

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

Bai, Mira

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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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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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Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis

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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Connolly, Cyril

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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

Doris Egan

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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

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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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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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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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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.

42.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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

44.

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

Frost, Robert

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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

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

Agathon

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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?