Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about God

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

Mary Daly

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

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis

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The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

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In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Whitman, Walt

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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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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya

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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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The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Albert Einstein

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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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Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph De

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Ramdas, Swami

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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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 not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? [Numbers 23:19]

Bible

28.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Macdonald, George

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

Sara B. Cooper

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

Luther, Martin

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

Daly, Mary

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

Heraclitus

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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Maclaren, Alexander

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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

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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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To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

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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 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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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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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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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Stowell, Joseph