Motivational Quotes

God

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about God

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Sara B. Cooper

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

I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Bai, Mira

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

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer

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

Aughey, John H.

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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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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Plotinus

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

Mairaux, Andre

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Hugh Elliott

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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, 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 has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

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The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Sheen, Martin

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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

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

Joubert, Joseph

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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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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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Churchill, Winston

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God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes