Motivational Quotes

God

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about God

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

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

William Blake

Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen

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

God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Auden, W. H.

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

Hugh Elliott

If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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

Daly, Mary

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

Tozer, A. W.

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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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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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What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Simpson, A. B.

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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

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Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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 concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

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

Herbert, George

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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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God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

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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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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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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

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If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Daly, Mary

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

Williams, Ted

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The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Irv Kupcinet

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Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

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If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge