Motivational Quotes

God

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about God

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Proverb

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu, Charles De

I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

Lawrence, D. H.

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

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

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Mary Daly

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

Minor White

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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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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.

Coder, S. Maxwell

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

Brooks, Thomas

22.

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

Albert Einstein

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

Seneca

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

Albert Einstein

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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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Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

31.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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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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Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

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The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer

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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 know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Mairaux, Andre

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Tozer, A. W.

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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

Saadi

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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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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To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre

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God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert