Motivational Quotes

God

We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

- Weil, Simone

Best Quotes about God

Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph De

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

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

Walker, Alice

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

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

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

Voltaire

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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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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

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

Mary Daly

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

Cotvos

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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 fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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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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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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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 hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

William Blake

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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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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.

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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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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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With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Anouilh, Jean

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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

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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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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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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

Bataille, Georges

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

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

Macdonald, George

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

Doris Egan

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When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

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Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

Matthias

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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