Motivational Quotes

God

The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

- Ramakrishna, Sri

Best Quotes about God

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

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

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

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Layton, Irving

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

Daly, Mary

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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

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Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

Mairaux, Andre

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Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? [Numbers 23:19]

Bible

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Agathon

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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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Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

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Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

Margaret Atwood

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Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

Proverb

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The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Shakti Gawain

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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

William Blake

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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]

Bible

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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Churchill, Winston

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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

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Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

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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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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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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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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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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

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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

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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 is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

Mencken, H. L.