Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Shakti Gawain

Best Quotes about God

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

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

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

10.

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

Luther, Martin

11.

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 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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O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

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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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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

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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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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Mairaux, Andre

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

21.

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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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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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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The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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

Shakti Gawain

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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Cecil, Richard

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Tozer, A. W.

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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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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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Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

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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

39.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

44.

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

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I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Tillich, Paul

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

Seneca

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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

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. WeÆre looking for something, though weÆre not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

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