Motivational Quotes

God

While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about God

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

Cotvos

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

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

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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

Seneca

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

Joubert, Joseph

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Herbert, George

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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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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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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The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Eckhart, Meister

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I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Tillich, Paul

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

Heraclitus

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God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gulbranson, Gary

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Irv Kupcinet

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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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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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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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Seneca

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

Williams, Ted

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Burroughs, William S.

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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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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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If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

Newton, John

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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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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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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