Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

Truett, George W.

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

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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

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

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

Heraclitus

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

Tillich, Paul

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

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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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

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It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

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IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

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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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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

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

Doris Egan

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

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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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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

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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

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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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

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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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God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gulbranson, Gary

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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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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Burroughs, William S.

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If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

Bunuel, Luis

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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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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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 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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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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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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We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Minor White

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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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 is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. WeÆre looking for something, though weÆre not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preacher

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In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Tozer, A. W.

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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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 you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.