Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about God

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

Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Daly, Mary

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

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

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

Tillich, Paul

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

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

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

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

Albert Einstein

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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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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Tozer, A. W.

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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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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

Michael J. Fox

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While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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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.

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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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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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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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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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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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There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

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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

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

Shakti Gawain

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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

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Flavius Josephus

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Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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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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And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

Flecker, James Elroy

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In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Whitman, Walt

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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