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

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

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

Paley, William

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

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

Sara B. Cooper

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Butler, Samuel

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

Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

Matthias

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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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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

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

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

Webster, Daniel

15.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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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God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

19.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Jewish Proverb

21.

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

22.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

25.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

26.

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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Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Daly, Mary

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Seneca

31.

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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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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The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Eckhart, Meister

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I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Bai, Mira

35.

And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya

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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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What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

Tozer, A. W.

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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Cecil, Richard

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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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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

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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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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.