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 the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Peck, William M.

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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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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Heraclitus

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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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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'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis

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

Williams, Ted

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

Daly, Mary

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

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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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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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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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The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Bai, Mira

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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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And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12]

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I think there's a god and I know it's not me.

Michael J. Fox

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For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]

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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

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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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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

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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

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