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

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.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Webster, Daniel

Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

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.

Real Live Preacher

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

Doris Egan

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

Voltaire

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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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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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Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

William Blake

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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

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

Albert Einstein

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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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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Williams, Ted

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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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

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

Mairaux, Andre

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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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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

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

Minor White

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

Butterworth, Eric

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If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.