Motivational Quotes

God

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about God

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Eckhart, Meister

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]

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Joubert, Joseph

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This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Agathon

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Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

Little, Paul

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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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With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Weil, Simone

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

Simpson, A. B.

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

Minor White

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For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

Seneca

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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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IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

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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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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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I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

Lawrence, D. H.

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John

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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gulbranson, Gary

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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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How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

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

Pascal, Blaise

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In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Weil, Simone

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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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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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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Tillich, Paul

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Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

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