Motivational Quotes

God

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

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

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

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Kempis, Thomas

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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

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

Peck, William M.

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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Brenda Ueland

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

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

Doris Egan

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I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Daly, Mary

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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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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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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Tozer, A. W.

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes

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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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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

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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 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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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 must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Albert Einstein

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Butterworth, Eric

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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Cecil, Richard

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Whitman, Walt

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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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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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Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean