Motivational Quotes

God

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

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Best Quotes about God

Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Daly, Mary

For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]

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And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

Flecker, James Elroy

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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 always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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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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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

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God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

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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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We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

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If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

Bataille, Georges

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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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God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Brooks, Thomas

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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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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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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Frost, Robert

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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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God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

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The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

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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

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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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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul