Motivational Quotes

God

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about God

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

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

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

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

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

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

Agathon

To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

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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The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

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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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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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God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

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I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

Tillich, Paul

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The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

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The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer

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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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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.

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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

Albert Einstein

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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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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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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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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

36.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Williams, Ted

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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 God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

Tozer, A. W.

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It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.

Coder, S. Maxwell

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You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Doris Egan

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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Seneca

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