Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Shakti Gawain

Best Quotes about God

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Stowell, Joseph

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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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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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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Tozer, A. W.

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God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Brooks, Thomas

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Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

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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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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

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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Herbert, George

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

Bible

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

Heraclitus

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

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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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I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

Proverb

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.