Motivational Quotes

God

You have to believe in gods to see them.

- saying, Hopi Indian

Best Quotes about God

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

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

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

Ramdas, Swami

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

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Saadi

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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 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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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

Flecker, James Elroy

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

Paley, William

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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 you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

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Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

Bible

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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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

Doris Egan

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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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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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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

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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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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Churchill, Winston

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I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

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

Frost, Robert

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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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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

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

Michael J. Fox

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

Homer

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

William Blake

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God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Daly, Mary