Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Albert Einstein

Best Quotes about God

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Irv Kupcinet

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

Butterworth, Eric

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.

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

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

Albert Einstein

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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

Seneca

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

Hugh Elliott

10.

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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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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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Walker, Alice

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

Mary Daly

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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 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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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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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

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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. And thus I saw when we are all in peace and in love, we find no contrariness, nor no manner of letting through that contrariness which is now in us.

Norwich, Julian of

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In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Whitman, Walt

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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

26.

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

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God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes

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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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In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Tozer, A. W.

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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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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

32.

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

Proverb

33.

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

Flavius Josephus

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

Joubert, Joseph

35.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

36.

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

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

Albert Einstein

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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 was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me.

Little, Paul

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean