Motivational Quotes

God

You are within God. God is within you.

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about God

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

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

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

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

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

Brenda Ueland

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

Tozer, A. W.

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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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What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Aughey, John H.

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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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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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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

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Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Frost, Robert

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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

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

Layton, Irving

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

Peck, William M.

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

Doris Egan

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Heraclitus

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Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

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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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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Sara B. Cooper

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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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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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

William Blake

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The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

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

Minor White