Motivational Quotes

God

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

- Redgrave, Lynn

Best Quotes about God

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

Albert Einstein

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

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

Real Live Preacher

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.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

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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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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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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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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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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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Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

Matthias

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

Aughey, John H.

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

Stowell, Joseph

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sara B. Cooper

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

Bai, Mira

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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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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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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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At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

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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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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Carter, Angela

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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Butler, Samuel

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Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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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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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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When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus