Motivational Quotes

God

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

- Redgrave, Lynn

Best Quotes about God

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

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

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

Ramdas, Swami

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

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

Plotinus

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Homer

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

Michael J. Fox

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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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

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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

Paul, Jean

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

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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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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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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Doris Egan

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

Cotvos

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

Peck, William M.

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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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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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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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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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

Daly, Mary

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

Hugh Elliott

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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Brooks, Thomas

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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.