Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Albert Einstein

Best Quotes about God

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Seneca

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

James Lileks

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

Walker, Alice

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

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

Proverb

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

William Blake

EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. WeÆre looking for something, though weÆre not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preacher

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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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

Picasso, Pablo

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Williams, Ted

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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument -- their intellect -- which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

Strawson, Galen

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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

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

Agathon

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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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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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

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The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Haggai, John

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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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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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As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

Picabia, Francis

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

33.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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 fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

J. G. Holland

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

Tillich, Paul

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