Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Mary Daly

Best Quotes about God

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

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

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya

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

Mary Daly

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

Aughey, John H.

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

Albert Einstein

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

Picabia, Francis

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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Churchill, Winston

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Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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

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

Albert Einstein

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

Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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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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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

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

Tozer, A. W.

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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 someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

Bunuel, Luis

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Mairaux, Andre

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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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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

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

Ramdas, Swami

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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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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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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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, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean