Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Tillich, Paul

Best Quotes about God

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Daly, Mary

We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte 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.

Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

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

Plotinus

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Agathon

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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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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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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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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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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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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Carter, Angela

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Heraclitus

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

Bible

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

J. G. Holland

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

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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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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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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Burroughs, William S.

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Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

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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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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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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me.

Little, Paul

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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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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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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Cecil, Richard