Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Proverb, Yiddish

Best Quotes about God

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

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

Proverb

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

Peck, William M.

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

Williams, Ted

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

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aughey, John H.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Flavius Josephus

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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

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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Seneca

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

Walker, Alice

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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 hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Brooks, Thomas

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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Auden, W. H.

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If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

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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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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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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

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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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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

James Lileks

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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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I think there's a god and I know it's not me.

Michael J. Fox

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Bible

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Doris Egan

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

Brenda Ueland

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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