Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about God

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

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

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

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

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Cioran, E. M.

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

Saadi

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

Seneca

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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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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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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

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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

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People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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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

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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

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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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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

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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 gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

Picasso, Pablo

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Albert Einstein

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Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Proverb

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Peck, William M.

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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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To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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

Steinem, Gloria