Motivational Quotes

God

God is the name we give our conscience.

- Shureih, Nader

Best Quotes about God

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

Bunuel, Luis

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Connolly, Cyril

Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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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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To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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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]

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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]

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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]

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

Minor White

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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

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The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

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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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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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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Hugh Elliott

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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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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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We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

William Blake

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Macdonald, George

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

Saadi

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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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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Luther, Martin

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God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Brooks, Thomas

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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Seneca

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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