Motivational Quotes

God

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about God

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

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

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

Flecker, James Elroy

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

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

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

Sir Julian Huxley

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

Truett, George W.

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Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.

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How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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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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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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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

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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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Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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

Albert Einstein

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

Real Live Preacher

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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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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Augustine, St.

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

Bai, Mira

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Einstein, Albert

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Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

Matthias

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Eckhart, Meister

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God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.