Motivational Quotes

God

God is only a great imaginative experience.

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about God

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Brookner, Anita

If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Daly, Mary

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

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

Albert Einstein

Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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

Irv Kupcinet

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Brenda Ueland

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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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 clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

Tozer, A. W.

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And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

Flecker, James Elroy

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Agathon

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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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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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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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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

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

Bai, Mira

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

Peck, William M.

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Beckett, Samuel

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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Williams, Ted

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.