Motivational Quotes

God

Man does what he can, God does what he will.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about God

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Luther, Martin

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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

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God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

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

Mary Daly

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Truett, George W.

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But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

Bible

18.

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

19.

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

William Blake

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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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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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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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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Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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

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The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

Tozer, A. W.

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Haggai, John

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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

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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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God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Seneca

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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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

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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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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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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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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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

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If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

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When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

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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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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

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

Daly, Mary