Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Herbert, George

I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Bai, Mira

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

Daly, Mary

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

Chuck Palahniuk

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

Simpson, A. B.

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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

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Sheen, Martin

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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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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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Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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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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God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gulbranson, Gary

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

Hugh Elliott

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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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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore

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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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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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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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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Thoreau, Henry David

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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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 can only do for you what He can do through you.

Butterworth, Eric

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Agathon

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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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How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Plotinus

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

Saadi

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We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Weil, Simone

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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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When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher

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

Steinem, Gloria