Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about God

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

Agathon

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

Proverb

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hugh Elliott

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.

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

Homer

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

Eckhart, Meister

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I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

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

Canetti, Elias

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The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Luther, Martin

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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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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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

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

Flavius Josephus

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Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? [Numbers 23:19]

Bible

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Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Jewish Proverb

31.

Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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 not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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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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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

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

Doris Egan

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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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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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis

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