Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Peck, William M.

Best Quotes about God

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

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

William Blake

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

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

Herbert, George

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

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

Agathon

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

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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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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

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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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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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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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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 always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Picabia, Francis

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I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Wiesel, Elie

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Carter, Angela

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For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.

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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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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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If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

Tozer, A. W.

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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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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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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 lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb

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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 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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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

Mairaux, Andre

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If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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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