Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about God

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

If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

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

Webster, Daniel

God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Macdonald, George

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Cecil, Richard

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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 hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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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

13.

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

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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

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God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gulbranson, Gary

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I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Bai, Mira

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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument -- their intellect -- which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

Strawson, Galen

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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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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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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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If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

Newton, John

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Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

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If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

28.

For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

Jewish Proverb

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer

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Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

34.

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

Freud, Sigmund

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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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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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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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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Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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

Mairaux, Andre

43.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

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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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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

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

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

Daly, Mary

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

Doris Egan