Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about God

In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Weil, Simone

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

Albert Einstein

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

Voltaire

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

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

Webster, Daniel

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

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

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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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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What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Saadi

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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice

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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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I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Sheen, Martin

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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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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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]

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To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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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To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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]

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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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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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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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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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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

J. G. Holland

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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