Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about God

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

Proverb

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Einstein, Albert

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

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Irv Kupcinet

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Brookner, Anita

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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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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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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

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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 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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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

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

Herbert, George

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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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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

19.

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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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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

Albert Einstein

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Tozer, A. W.

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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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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

32.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice

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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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I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Macdonald, George

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

Heraclitus

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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

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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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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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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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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

46.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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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

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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

49.

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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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean