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

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

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

Herbert, George

I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

Lawrence, D. H.

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

Frost, Robert

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

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

Heraclitus

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

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

Albert Einstein

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

Picabia, Francis

23.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Proverb, Yiddish

28.

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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IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

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

Tozer, A. W.

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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Eckhart, Meister

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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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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I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Sheen, Martin

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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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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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I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Bai, Mira

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

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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