Motivational Quotes

God

You are within God. God is within you.

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about God

Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Plotinus

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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

Paul, Jean

When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre

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

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

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

Williams, Ted

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Peck, William M.

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

Simpson, A. B.

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When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher

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

Doris Egan

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.

Coder, S. Maxwell

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

Tozer, A. W.

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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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The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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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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God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

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

Picabia, Francis

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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

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Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Daly, Mary

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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

47.

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.