Motivational Quotes

God

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.

Best Quotes about God

Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Herbert, George

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

Layton, Irving

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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.

Sheen, Martin

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

Albert Einstein

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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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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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

Beckett, Samuel

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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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You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

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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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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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I think there's a god and I know it's not me.

Michael J. Fox

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

Simpson, A. B.

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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

Williams, Ted

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This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Agathon

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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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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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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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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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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We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Proverb

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

Doris Egan

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When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher

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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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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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