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

Joubert, Joseph

If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

Ramdas, Swami

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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

Beckett, Samuel

God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. And thus I saw when we are all in peace and in love, we find no contrariness, nor no manner of letting through that contrariness which is now in us.

Norwich, Julian of

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

Bunuel, Luis

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

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

Luther, Martin

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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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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

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Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

Little, Paul

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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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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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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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With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Anouilh, Jean

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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

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

Proverb

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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

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

Saadi

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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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When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

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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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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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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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The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Haggai, John

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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

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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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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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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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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