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

Plotinus

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.

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? [Numbers 23:19]

Bible

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

Sara B. Cooper

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

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Seneca

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People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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

Cioran, E. M.

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'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Cecil, Richard

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Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

Little, Paul

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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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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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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

29.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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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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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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

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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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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Hugh Elliott

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For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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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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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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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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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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

Tillich, Paul

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To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre