Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Tozer, A. W.

Best Quotes about God

People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

Proverb

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

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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

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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.

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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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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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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

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If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

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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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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

Picasso, Pablo

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

Williams, Ted

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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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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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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joubert, Joseph

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God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

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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 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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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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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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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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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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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen

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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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Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

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

Albert Einstein

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The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Luther, Martin

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

Simpson, A. B.

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

Tillich, Paul

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

Aughey, John H.

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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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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

Hollingdale, R. J.

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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.