Motivational Quotes

God

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

- Sophy Burnham

Best Quotes about God

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Webster, Daniel

God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

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

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

Voltaire

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

Daly, Mary

It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument -- their intellect -- which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

Strawson, Galen

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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Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

Bunuel, Luis

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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Sophy Burnham

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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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The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Haggai, John

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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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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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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God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Albert Einstein

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God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

Mencken, H. L.

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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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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 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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Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

William Blake

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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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If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

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

Minor White

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

Heraclitus

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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.