Motivational Quotes

God

God is the name we give our conscience.

- Shureih, Nader

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

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

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Anouilh, Jean

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Joubert, Joseph

Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Agathon

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

Peck, William M.

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

Simpson, A. B.

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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

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

Tozer, A. W.

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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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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

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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 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

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The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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

Williams, Ted

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When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher

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

Albert Einstein

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People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Heraclitus

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

Sara B. Cooper

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. WeÆre looking for something, though weÆre not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preacher

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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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Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.

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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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We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Weil, Simone

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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

Eckhart, Meister

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Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.