Motivational Quotes

God

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about God

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Flecker, James Elroy

If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

Newton, John

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

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 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

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Tozer, A. W.

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

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

Sara B. Cooper

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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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

William Blake

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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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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Williams, Ted

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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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Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Luther, Martin

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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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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

Jewish Proverb

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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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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Doris Egan

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

Heraclitus

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Burroughs, William S.

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

Seneca

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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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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

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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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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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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.

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