Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

Best Quotes about God

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

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Anouilh, Jean

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Whitman, Walt

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

Tillich, Paul

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God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? [Numbers 23:19]

Bible

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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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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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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Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Joubert, Joseph

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If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb

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

Heraclitus

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God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Eckhart, Meister

35.

And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12]

Bible

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Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis

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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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I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Stone, Lucy

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

Simpson, A. B.

40.

But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

Bible

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You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

Bataille, Georges

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Mary Daly