Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Webster, Daniel

Best Quotes about God

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

I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me.

Little, Paul

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

Michael J. Fox

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

Walker, Alice

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

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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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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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Eckhart, Meister

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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

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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, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Luther, Martin

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

Saadi

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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Minor White

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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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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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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 hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Seneca

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

Augustine, St.

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

William Blake

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I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Macdonald, George

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya

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If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

Tozer, A. W.

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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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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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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis