Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about God

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Albert Einstein

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

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

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

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

You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

10.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

11.

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

Tillich, Paul

12.

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

Peck, William M.

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When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen

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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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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

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

Webster, Daniel

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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

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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 is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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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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Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

Williams, Ted

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

Eckhart, Meister

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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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

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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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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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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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And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12]

Bible

40.

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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The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Albert Einstein

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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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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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The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Homer

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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John

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

Jewish Proverb