Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

Luther, Martin

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent.

Qur'an

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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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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Proverb

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

Homer

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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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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 immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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We want God to come and save us. But he wonÆt. God doesnÆt stop levees from failing, he doesnÆt stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesnÆt stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant

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

Herbert, George

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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

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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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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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The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

Tozer, A. W.

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God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

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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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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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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Maclaren, Alexander

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If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore

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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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We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

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

James Lileks

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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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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Jewish Proverb

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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Connolly, Cyril

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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