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

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

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument -- their intellect -- which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

Strawson, Galen

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

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

Saadi

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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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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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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 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

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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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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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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You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

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It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Weil, Simone

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

Joubert, Joseph

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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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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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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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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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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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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God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

Paley, William

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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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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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Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

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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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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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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

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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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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

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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

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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

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

Aughey, John H.

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