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

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

Tozer, A. W.

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

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

And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12]

Bible

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]

Bible

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Jewish Proverb

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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

11.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

12.

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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Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

Mairaux, Andre

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

Webster, Daniel

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I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

Simpson, A. B.

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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

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I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Stone, Lucy

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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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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

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It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.

Coder, S. Maxwell

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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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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

25.

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

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

26.

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

27.

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

28.

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

Voltaire

29.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

30.

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

31.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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 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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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

35.

To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

Macdonald, George

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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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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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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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 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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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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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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God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

William Blake