Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Sir Julian Huxley

Best Quotes about God

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

Saadi

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Anna Quindlen

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

Heraclitus

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

Luther, Martin

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

Doris Egan

In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Whitman, Walt

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God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Minor White

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

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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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Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

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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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God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

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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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If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

Tozer, A. W.

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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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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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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Herbert, George

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Albert Einstein

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Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

Mairaux, Andre

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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

Little, Paul

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

Agathon

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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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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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

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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