Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Williams, Ted

Best Quotes about God

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

To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

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

Bai, Mira

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Heraclitus

10.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

11.

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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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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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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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

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

Hugh Elliott

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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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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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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

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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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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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen

32.

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Agathon

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

Homer

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

Michael J. Fox

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

William Blake

45.

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

46.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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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