Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Mairaux, Andre

Best Quotes about God

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

Chuck Palahniuk

We want God to come and save us. But he wonÆt. God doesnÆt stop levees from failing, he doesnÆt stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesnÆt stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant

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

Picabia, Francis

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Weil, Simone

Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph De

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bai, Mira

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

Tillich, Paul

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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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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.

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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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I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

Simpson, A. B.

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Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

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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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He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

Kempis, Thomas

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God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Eckhart, Meister

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The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

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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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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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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb

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We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

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

Heraclitus

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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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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Weil, Simone

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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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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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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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When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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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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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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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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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

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The