Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Layton, Irving

Best Quotes about God

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

Bai, Mira

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

The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John

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

Ramdas, Swami

Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

Matthias

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Augustine, St.

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

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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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If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Albert Einstein

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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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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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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God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Albert Einstein

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

Tillich, Paul

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Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Heraclitus

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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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If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

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

Proverb

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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

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Irv Kupcinet

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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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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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A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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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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When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

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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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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument -- their intellect -- which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

Strawson, Galen

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Eckhart, Meister

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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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.