Motivational Quotes

God

God is the name we give our conscience.

- Shureih, Nader

Best Quotes about God

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

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

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

Layton, Irving

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Paley, William

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

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

Heraclitus

Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

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

Albert Einstein

11.

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

12.

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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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

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Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

Cioran, E. M.

19.

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

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'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Agathon

22.

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

Williams, Ted

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

24.

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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

Shakti Gawain

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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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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

29.

The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

31.

As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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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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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

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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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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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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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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.

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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

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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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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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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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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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Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis

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You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Doris Egan