Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Maclaren, Alexander

Best Quotes about God

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Herbert, George

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

Heraclitus

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

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

Aughey, John H.

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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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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It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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

Albert Einstein

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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

Tozer, A. W.

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Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Augustine, St.

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

Doris Egan

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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 bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. WeÆre looking for something, though weÆre not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preacher

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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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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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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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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

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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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God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

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I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

Hollingdale, R. J.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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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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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