Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Minor White

Best Quotes about God

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

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

Simpson, A. B.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

Eckhart, Meister

I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Wiesel, Elie

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

Bataille, Georges

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

Proverb

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

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

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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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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

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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Shakti Gawain

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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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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If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent.

Qur'an

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Kempis, Thomas

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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

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

Heraclitus

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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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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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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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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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I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Stone, Lucy

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

Cotvos

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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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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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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

William Blake

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Walker, Alice

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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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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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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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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The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Haggai, John

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer