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 God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

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.

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

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

Minor White

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

Layton, Irving

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 man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

Tozer, A. W.

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Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Hugh Elliott

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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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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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Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

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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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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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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Proverb

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Bai, Mira

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Plotinus

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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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O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Irv Kupcinet

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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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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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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 like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

Simpson, A. B.

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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