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

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

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

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.

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

Herbert, George

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

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

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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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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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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The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Minor White

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

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If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

Newton, John

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

Tillich, Paul

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

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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 Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Auden, W. H.

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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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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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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