Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Agathon

Best Quotes about God

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Truett, George W.

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

Picabia, Francis

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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

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

J. G. Holland

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer

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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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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A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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

Eckhart, Meister

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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 grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

Tozer, A. W.

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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

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

Irv Kupcinet

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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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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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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You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

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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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Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Seneca

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People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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

Bai, Mira

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

Flavius Josephus

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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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It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.

Coder, S. Maxwell

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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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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