Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

Tozer, A. W.

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

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Tillich, Paul

Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Jewish Proverb

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Brooks, Thomas

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But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

Bible

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God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

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

Stowell, Joseph

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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Real Live Preacher

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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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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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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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John

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

Brenda Ueland

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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

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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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God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Butler, Samuel

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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

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

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Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Proverb

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

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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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De