Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Mary Daly

Best Quotes about God

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

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

Anouilh, Jean

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Auden, W. H.

Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

Margaret Atwood

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

Beckett, Samuel

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.

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

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

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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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Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

Little, Paul

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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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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 must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

Proverb

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

18.

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

Eckhart, Meister

22.

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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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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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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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

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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

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

Bible

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

Jewish 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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To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre

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

Picabia, Francis

36.

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

Tillich, Paul

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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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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Augustine, St.

47.

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

Albert Einstein

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.