Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about God

If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore

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

We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

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

Proverb, Yiddish

God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Pascal, Blaise

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Peck, William M.

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He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

Kempis, Thomas

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Bai, Mira

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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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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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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Williams, Ted

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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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If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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

Albert Einstein

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If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent.

Qur'an

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ziglar, Zig

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

William Blake

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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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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer

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You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

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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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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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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

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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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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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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.