Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Albert Einstein

Best Quotes about God

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.

We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

William Blake

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

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.

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

Macdonald, George

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

Herbert, George

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

Agathon

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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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If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb

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

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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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In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Weil, Simone

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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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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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 always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Doris Egan

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

Little, Paul

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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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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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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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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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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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer

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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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He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Cecil, Richard

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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 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 God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Luther, Martin

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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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Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

Matthias

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

Michael J. Fox

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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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When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher

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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Tozer, A. W.

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Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami