Motivational Quotes

God

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

- Walker, Alice

Best Quotes about God

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

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

Albert Einstein

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Doris Egan

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

Proverb

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

Williams, Ted

10.

Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

11.

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

Daly, Mary

12.

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

13.

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

Herbert, George

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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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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

16.

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

Flavius Josephus

17.

And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12]

Bible

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

Jewish Proverb

20.

We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

21.

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

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To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

29.

God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gulbranson, Gary

30.

God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

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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

32.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

33.

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

Tillich, Paul

36.

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

Michael J. Fox

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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Shaw, George Bernard

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

42.

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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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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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

45.

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

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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.

Real Live Preacher

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As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Tozer, A. W.

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IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

50.

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