Motivational Quotes

God

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about God

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Augustine, St.

It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

Margaret Atwood

God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Carter, Angela

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

Simpson, A. B.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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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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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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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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God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

Mencken, H. L.

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But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

Bible

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

Herbert, George

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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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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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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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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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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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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Sara B. Cooper

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

Mairaux, Andre

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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

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God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

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Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Proverb

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent.

Qur'an

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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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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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Butler, Samuel

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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