Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Shakti Gawain

Best Quotes about God

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

Stowell, Joseph

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre

The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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.

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

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.

If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

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With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Albert Einstein

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

Mary Daly

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Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. And thus I saw when we are all in peace and in love, we find no contrariness, nor no manner of letting through that contrariness which is now in us.

Norwich, Julian of

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God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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

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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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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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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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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Weil, Simone

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

Proverb

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God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Einstein, Albert

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And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

Flecker, James Elroy

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Saadi

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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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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

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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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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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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert