Motivational Quotes

God

I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about God

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

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Voltaire

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

Daly, Mary

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

Shakti Gawain

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

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

Macdonald, George

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I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

Hollingdale, R. J.

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

Albert Einstein

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I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me.

Little, Paul

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I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Weil, Simone

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

Irv Kupcinet

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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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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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But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

Bible

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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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Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. And thus I saw when we are all in peace and in love, we find no contrariness, nor no manner of letting through that contrariness which is now in us.

Norwich, Julian of

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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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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Seneca

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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Herbert, George

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

Peck, William M.

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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

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God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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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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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

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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

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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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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

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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