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

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

Doris Egan

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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

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

If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent.

Qur'an

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

Newton, John

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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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

12.

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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Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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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 God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb

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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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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

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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 will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

22.

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

Albert Einstein

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

Sara B. Cooper

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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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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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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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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 hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Tillich, Paul

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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 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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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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We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

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God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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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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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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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Cioran, E. M.

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Daly, Mary

47.

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

Herbert, George

49.

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

Agathon

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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