Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about God

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

Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Augustine, St.

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

Butterworth, Eric

I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

Simpson, A. B.

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

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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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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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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

Seneca

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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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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 is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

Picasso, Pablo

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Connolly, Cyril

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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

Williams, Ted

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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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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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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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I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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I think there's a god and I know it's not me.

Michael J. Fox

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

Doris Egan

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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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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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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel

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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

William Blake

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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Voltaire

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

Shakti Gawain

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God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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

Ramakrishna, Sri