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

We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

Bunuel, Luis

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

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

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

William Blake

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

Mairaux, Andre

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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

Heraclitus

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

Butterworth, Eric

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If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.

Coder, S. Maxwell

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

Brooks, Thomas

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The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Haggai, John

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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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 name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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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God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Bai, Mira

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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 is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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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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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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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

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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 always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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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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Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

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People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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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.

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