Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Aughey, John H.

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Eckhart, Meister

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

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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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Albert Einstein

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Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Kempis, Thomas

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I think there's a god and I know it's not me.

Michael J. Fox

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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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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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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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There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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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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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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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 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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Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Daly, Mary

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

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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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W. Somerset Maugham

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Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

Bible

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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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

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Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen

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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

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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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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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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 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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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

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