Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about God

You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Augustine, St.

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

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

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

Tozer, A. W.

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I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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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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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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God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

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

Homer

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Luther, Martin

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

Michael J. Fox

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Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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 you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Peck, William M.

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I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me.

Little, Paul

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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 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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God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

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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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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Connolly, Cyril

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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

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

Webster, Daniel

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

W. Somerset Maugham