Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Butterworth, Eric

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

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

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

Luther, Martin

11.

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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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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

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

Williams, Ted

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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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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 an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument -- their intellect -- which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

Strawson, Galen

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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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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Webster, Daniel

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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

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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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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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

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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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How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

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

Macdonald, George

31.

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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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes

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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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Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

Bible

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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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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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You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

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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

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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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People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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We want God to come and save us. But he wonÆt. God doesnÆt stop levees from failing, he doesnÆt stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesnÆt stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant

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Wiesel, Elie

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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