Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Albert Einstein

Best Quotes about God

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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

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.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Agathon

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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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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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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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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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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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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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God is clever, but not dishonest.

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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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

Truett, George W.

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

Albert Einstein

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

Seneca

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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

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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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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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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

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

Michael J. Fox

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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