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

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

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

God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Butterworth, Eric

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If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

Newton, John

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This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Agathon

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Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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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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There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

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I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

Simpson, A. B.

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

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

Albert Einstein

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Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Daly, Mary

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Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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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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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

Picasso, Pablo

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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Brenda Ueland

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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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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Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

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Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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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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If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Daly, Mary

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

Augustine, St.

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If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore