Motivational Quotes

God

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

- William Blake

Best Quotes about God

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

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

Plotinus

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

Margaret Atwood

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Tillich, Paul

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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]

Bible

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

Albert Einstein

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

Jewish Proverb

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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Carter, Angela

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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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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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Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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

James Lileks

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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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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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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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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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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

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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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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

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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Herbert, George

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Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

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

Aughey, John H.

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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 is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

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In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Weil, Simone

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

Mairaux, Andre

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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joubert, Joseph

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To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre

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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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I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Burroughs, William S.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Bai, Mira