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

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

Albert Einstein

When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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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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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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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

Luther, Martin

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

Brenda Ueland

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Walker, Alice

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

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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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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John

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

Homer

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God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gulbranson, Gary

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ziglar, Zig

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Butterworth, Eric

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To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

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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 hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Tillich, Paul

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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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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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If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

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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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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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Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Proverb

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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