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

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Macdonald, George

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

Herbert, George

And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12]

Bible

God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

Williams, Ted

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

In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Weil, Simone

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 hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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

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

Tillich, Paul

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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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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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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God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

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

Real Live Preacher

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Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

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The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Haggai, John

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

Agathon

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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

Walker, Alice

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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