Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about God

I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

Hollingdale, R. J.

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

Steinem, Gloria

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Churchill, Winston

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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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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Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

Margaret Atwood

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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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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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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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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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We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Weil, Simone

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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

Cotvos

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

Augustine, St.

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

Williams, Tennessee

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.

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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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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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This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Agathon

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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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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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We want God to come and save us. But he wonÆt. God doesnÆt stop levees from failing, he doesnÆt stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesnÆt stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant

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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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Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

Matthias

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

Heraclitus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

Bible

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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

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Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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