Motivational Quotes

God

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

- J. G. Holland

Best Quotes about God

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

Plotinus

At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Doris Egan

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

Layton, Irving

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

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Macdonald, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

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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.

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

Flavius Josephus

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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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God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

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God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Auden, W. H.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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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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We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? [Numbers 23:19]

Bible

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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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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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I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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

Stowell, Joseph

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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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It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

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

Agathon

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

Mairaux, Andre

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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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If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

Bunuel, Luis

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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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What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

Tozer, A. W.

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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