Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peck, William M.

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

Butterworth, Eric

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

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

The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

Freud, Sigmund

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God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Butterworth, Eric

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Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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

Proverb

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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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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.

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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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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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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

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I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Sheen, Martin

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As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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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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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

Lawrence, D. H.

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The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

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The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Luther, Martin

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

Real Live Preacher

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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 universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

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

Albert Einstein

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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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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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

William Blake

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To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

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It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Weil, Simone

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I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Macdonald, George

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We want God to come and save us. But he wonÆt. God doesnÆt stop levees from failing, he doesnÆt stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesnÆt stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant

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God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb

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Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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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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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Williams, Ted