Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Eckhart, Meister

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

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

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

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

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

Aughey, John H.

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Jewish Proverb

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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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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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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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When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

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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

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

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Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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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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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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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 know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Stone, Lucy

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

Augustine, St.

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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 universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

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

Saadi

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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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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

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Shaw, George Bernard

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

Agathon

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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 indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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 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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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